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bottom of the very ravines : As to the pafs, it is reprefented in 

 vol. ii. tab. ii. and exhibits the windings of the Jumna^ bounded 

 by a naked country. The difF is perpendicular, and fo clofe 

 to the water, as to render the march extremely difficult. 



In the neighborhood oi y^gra are feveral other fine buildings, Fi7.ozeaba&. 

 fuch as a modern tomb, and a long oratory at Fizozeabad, from 

 which the Mollahs explain the Koran to the people. Thefe 

 are in Mr. Hodges, vol. ii. tab. XVIII. ; he has alfo given in the 

 fame vol. tab. XIX. a view of the hunting palace of Sbekoabad, 

 now in ruins, once the delight of Dara Sbeko, one of the unfor- 

 tunate fons of 6'Z'^Z' j''(?y6^;z. 



I CANNOT help digreffing about fixty miles to the fouth- GwaliorFort, 

 weft of Etawa to Gwalior, a great and ftrong fort, placed on an 

 infulated rock, Hoping like that of Edinburgh ov Sterling into 

 the level country : the one end is a very lofty precipice. Its 

 length is four miles, its breadth unequal ; the top an inclined 

 plain ; the walls and towers fkirt the w^hole edge of the moun- 

 tain. This was a conliderable poft as early as the year 1008, 

 and fo ftrong as feldom to be reduced but by famine : Such was 

 the cafe when it was taken by the emperor y^/Vw;;^ in the year 

 1231. It had been originally a Droog or Hindoo fortrefs. Thefe 

 fpecies of elevated infulated rocks are frequent features in In- 

 dia ; fiich w^ere thofe which gave Alexander the Great fo much 

 trouble in reducing. This became at laft a ftatc prifon ; many 

 a foul and midnight murder has been committed on captives of 

 royal blood v. ithin its walls. In the neighborhood of this for- Lions near 



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trefs, and that of Rboias Gur, are numbers of lions. Thofe who 



deny that thofe animals were natives of India, aftert, that here 



Vol. II. B b was 



