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called) made of ftone, conftru6led with amazing exacSlnefs, and 

 as nicely divided as could be done by the modern artift. This 

 building was founded by that great encourager of fcience, 

 Akbar. I muft refer the reader to the Ixviith volume,. 

 p. 598, of our Philofophical Tranfadtions^ for a brief account 

 given of it by Sir Robert Barker, Knight, and to the three, 

 plates, made from drawings taken on the fpot, which may give, 

 fome idea of the ftupendous work. I may add another inftance 

 of their aftronomical knowlege, exemplified in. the carving of 

 the ligns of the Zodiac, cut in a pagoda not remote from Cape 

 Comorin. This is engraven in the Ixiid volume, Phil. 'Tranf. 

 p. 353, from a drawing made from Mr. Call, engineer in the fer- 

 vice of the Eaji India Company. 



This city, in the year 1781, was remarkable for the tragical Cheyt Sing. 

 conclufion of the quarrel between the Eajl India Company and 

 Cheyt Sing, an Aumeldar rent or lie ward of our province of Be- 

 nares, a temporary office, and appointed by Sujah ul Dow/ab,. 

 and guaranteed by ourfelves ; he was not a man of birth, but of 

 conliderable power, very w^ealthy, and very popular in the pro- 

 vince. He fliewed many figns of difcontent, and even of imme- 

 diate rebellion. This alarmed Mr. Hafings fo much, that he 

 fet out inftantly from Calcutta, and haftened to Benares, a 

 journey of the ihorteft road of four hundred and lixty miles. 

 On his arrival he ordered Cheyt Sing to be confined in his own 

 palace, and guarded, as is faid, by a body of unarmed Sepoys. A 

 dreadful fray arofe between his people and our's : above two 

 hundred of the latter w^ere malTacred on the fpot, with three 

 European officers ; above two hundred Sepoys were alio wound- 

 ed. Benares was to have been attacked, which occalioned the 



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