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immediate fucceffors of the great Akbar were interred in this 

 ^ity. His ionjebangir was depofited in 1627, in a garden near 

 the great Bazar. Mahometans deteft all fculpture or painting, 

 yet the tomb, which is covered with a black hearfe cloth, is belct 

 with portraits with white torches, and the figures of two Jefuits 

 at each end. It is pretended that the fon and fucceflbr, Sbab 

 Jeban, paid them that mark of refpecft, as he and his father had 

 been indebted to the order for their knowlege in mathematics 

 ^nd artrology. Sbab Jeban was buried in this city, in a 

 tomb begun by himfelf, and which an unnatural fon, who could 

 fuffer his parent to die in a fevere and long imprifonment, 

 would never trouble himfelf about completing. 



Notwithstanding Agra is feated in only Lat. 27% it is 

 fubjecft to fliarp frofts. Mr. Hodges^', when he was there, found 

 the mornings clear and very cold, and frequently fo frofty, that 

 he has feen feveral tanks frozen entirely over ; but in the mid- 

 dle of the day it was generally very hot. In a book newly tranf- 

 lated from the Te?Jian called Mutagberin, or modern times, 

 p. 287, there is mention of a froft at Dehli which lafled three 

 nights, by which brazen velTels filled with water burft. Debit 

 is feated in Lat. 28° 37'. Mr. Hodges'?, account of the effects of 

 froft at Debliy inclines me to believe that of the Indian hifto- 

 rian. 



Etawa is a village on the north fide of the Ganges, once a 

 oconfiderable town. The Ravines, vaft chafms formed by the 

 rains, which leave on each fide lofty hills truncated on their 

 tops, are etched by Mr. Hodges, vol. ii. tab. III. Various remains 

 of the town appear on the fummits of the clifi's, and even at the 



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