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Boglepour, under a handfome mcmument. Let this be his 

 merited epitaph, 



Is genus indocile ac difperfum montibus altis 

 Compofuit, legefque dcdit. 



About twenty-five miles below Raj abmahel ^ood a city of GangiaRegia. 

 great antiquity, the Gangia Regia oi Ptolemy. Ferijhta^ i. p. 18, 

 gives it a very high origin indeed, teUing us, that it was rebuilt 

 and beautified 732 years before Christ, by Sbinkol. The name 

 was then Gotira, and Lucknouti ; it flill retains in the maps that 

 of Gonr. It was taken in 1009, by Mabmood I. and the king- 

 made prifoner. Like Hannibal^ he kept poifon concealed in his 

 ring, which he took, and put an end to his life. His country was 

 annexed to the dominion of Gbiz7ii*, In ion, he reduced 

 Dehliy the firft city of that name, and in 1018 made himfelf 

 mafler of the great city of Canoge. 



Gotira was deftroyed after Tajnerlajie's invafion of Hindoojlany 

 but reftored and ornamented by Akbar in 1573, who called it 

 Jejimitabad^ originally it was waflied by the Ganges, but that 

 mutable ftream at prefent does not come within four miles of 

 the nearelt part. The extent of the ruins are not lefs than , 

 fifteen miles, flretching along the old banks of the Ganges ; the 

 breadth between two and three miles. Over the fite are Scat- 

 tered feveral villages, and thick woods, the haunts of tigers and 

 beafts of prey. The chief remains are a mofque, lined with 

 black marble, elaborately carved, and two gates of the citadel, 



* Ferifhta, i. p. 55. 



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