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giv^n a view of the palace of the Nabob, begun by Sujah ul 

 Dozvlah, and continvied by his fucceflbr Ajopb. It is built on 

 an eminence, and commands a fine view of the Goomlyj and the 

 country to the eaft, a plain of five hundred miles, extending as 

 far as Calcutta. 



We fliall now defcend again to the banks of the Ganges^ to Gazipour. 

 Gazipour, a city on the north fide of the river, twenty miles 

 below Benares. This place is remarkable for a magnificent 

 palace, on a clift impending over the river, built by Fiz ally 

 Cawfit a governor under the late Sujah ul Doivlah^ Nabob of 

 Oude. The feveral edifices left by that tranfient favorite fliew 

 him to have been a man of magnificent tafte. A polygonal 

 tower fi:ands in the river at the bafe of the rock ; above that is 

 a noble pile, fl:anding on an arcade with round arches, fitted for 

 catching the refrefhing breezes. Beneath that, from the very 

 fliore, rifes another part of the palace, confifting of three ftorics, 

 with arches of different architecture, the windows being pointed, 

 fee Mr. Hod'^es, vol. i. tab. VII. Fiz Ally was expelled from his 

 poflTefiions by his mafier ; had he not, this place would have 

 fallen to ruins ; for no fon ever lives in the palace of a de- 

 ceafed father, but builds a new one for his own ufe. This 

 is the caufe of ^o many ruins of magnificent modern founda- 

 tion. Sujah id Dozvlah finifhed his fpirited courfe in 1775. ■ 



Near this palace is a moll magnificent tomb (Mr. Hodges, Tomb. 

 vol. i. tab. VIII.) founded by Fiz Ally, as a family fepulchre; 

 the centre building is covered with an elegant dome. He was, 

 like the founders of many of the Egyptian pyramids, difap- 

 pointed of his hopes in both of his fplendid piles. Both the 



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