2i8 G A N G E T I G H I N D O O S T A N. 



monarchs of Egypt and the Indian prince, built, as Job exprefles 

 it, " defoJate places for themfelves." 



The pride of Gazipour^ perhaps of the Mahometan religious 

 architecture, is the beautiful mofque (given by Mr. Hodges, 

 vol. ii. tab. VII.). This has domes fingularly fwelling out in 

 their middle ; but the ftriking parts of this building are the 

 lofty turrets, fome of which are compofed of various parts, or- 

 namented with the true Acanthus, the fame appears in the ca- 

 pitals of the pillars of the Corinthian order. I am at a lofs to 

 know the founder of this curious place of devotion. 

 Battle of A FEW miles lower dowu, at the jun(5lion of the Cara7nnajfa 



BUXAR. 



with the Ganges, is Buxar, celebrated by the complete victory 

 gained O&ober ^iCi, 1764, by Mz^or He^or Monro, with nine 

 thoufand men, chiefly compofed of Sepoys, over an army of 

 fifty thoufand Indians, colle(5led by Sujab ul Doivlah and his al- 

 lies ; their defeat was attended with the lofs of fix thoufand of 

 their forces, and a hundred and thirty pieces of cannon, and 

 all their tents and ammunition. 

 River Gocra. Aeout eighty miles below Buxar, the Ganges receives into 

 its channel the great river Gogra, or Soorjew, which rifes in 

 Lat. 33°, out of a lake in the kingdom of Thibet, called Lankee 

 Dee, almoft clofe to the head of the Ganges-, from thence it 

 takes a fouthern courfe, pent in betw^een parallel chains of lofty 

 and fnow-capt mountains, burfts through the great chain of 

 the Emodus, and continues its confined paffage, rufliing through 

 another chain parallel to that of Emodus, named the mountains 

 of Kemaoon, till it gains the plains of Oude, and after a courfe 

 of about eight hundred miles is loft in the Ganges, near fifty 



miles above Patna. 



For 



