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For want of information I muft defcend many miles down 

 the ftream, before I meet any place remarkable enough to de- 

 tain me. Fyzabad, on its eaftern bank, in Lat. 26" 50', is a vaft Ftzadas. 

 city, and was once the capital of the province of Oiide. The 

 very magnificent palace of the late Sujab ul Dowlah^ Nabob of 

 Oude, is in ruins, fmce he had removed his refidence to Luck- 

 now. The views of Oude and Fyzabad, may be itQn in vol. ii. 

 tab. XIII. XIV. of Mr. Hodges'^ Views. 



The city of Oide ftands diredily oppofite. The author of the City of Oude. 

 Ayeen Akberry, ii. 41, fays, that it was in his time the largeft 

 city in Hindoojlan ; he mentions it as a place of peculiar fandtity. 

 Feri/Jjta boafts of its exifting two thoufand two years before 

 the chriftian sera. Of later days, after what I may call the fall- 

 ing to pieces of the Mogul empire, it became the refidence of 

 the ufurped fovereign Sujab ul DowIab\ its nabob had his palace 

 here and at Fyzabad, and ornamented both places with his 

 fplendid buildings. Mr. Hodges j in his ift vol. tab. 1. gives a 

 view of what he calls the ruins of old Oude, or of certain pa- 

 laces eredled in the time of the father of Sujab. Let me men- 

 tion, that in the floinifliing time of the Mogul empire, to this 

 Naboblliip was anne.Ked the Ible honor of VisiePv, the title of 

 which is ftill continued to the poffeffor in its fallen days. 



Abulfazel fpeaks of the trade of thefe cities from its northern Antient 

 neighbors. " From the northern mountains," fays he (in vol. 

 ii. p. 42.) " the principal articles imported are the following, 

 " 'viz, gold, copper, lead, mulk, cow tails, honey, chook, 

 *' (which is an acid made of lime and lemon juice boiled to a 

 *' confiftence), pomegranate feeds, grapes, dried ginger, pepper,- 

 " red wood, tincar, civet, zedoary, wax, woollen cloths, woollen 



F f a *' ware, 



