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vol. i. p. 96, but infinitely fuperior in extent. Tbevenot, who 

 -vifited them, fay?, that they -reached above two leagues, a 

 raatchlefs affemblage of Pagodas, temples, and chapel-^, fup- . 

 ported by columns, and covered with ftatues of coloflal fize, but 

 of bad fculpture, being of great antiquity, and the work of the 

 early Hindoos, 



On defcending the Godavery, inLat. 18° 50', Long. 78° 12' eaft, 

 the great river Manzorah empties itfelf in the former ; it ori- 

 ginates very far to the weft, not a hundred and forty miles from 

 'Bombay, at a fmall diftance from Ahjnednagur, a large city, noted 

 for the death oi Aurengzebe, in 1707. The river has a fouth- 

 wefterly courfe, and the names of many places on its banks 

 BsDE-R. unnoticed in hiftory, till we arrive at Beder, in Lat. 17* 50'. 



"^bevenotf who vifited it about the year 1666, calls it the capital of 

 '^elUngena. It is a great city, encompaffed with brick-walls, em- 

 battled, and with towers equidiftant. The artillery had mouths 

 three feet wide. Nizajn, in the late My/ore war, brought feme 

 of them into the field ; they were of an enormous length, and 

 each required a hundred oxen to draw it, they were ufelefsly 

 oftentatious : till the year 1657, Beder was governed by its own 

 princes. Aurengzebe added it to his own empire ajfter a fhort 

 fiege. It was then governed by an old ofiicer of great fidelity, 

 who rejedled every eflay of the emperor to corrupt him ; when 

 a pradticable breach w-as made, the fignal given for an affault ; 

 by the fall of a rocket near the magazine it blew up, when it 

 was covered with the garrifon, who had aflembled on it to repel 

 the enemy-: the greater part perifhed, v/ith the governor and 

 his three fons, and numbers of the affailants. The city proved ] 



a rich 



