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moft ftrikingly magnificent. The bricks of which the build- 

 ings were compoied, have ftood the trial of many ages; their 

 excellency makes them greatly fought after, and they are fent 

 as articles of commerce to MoorJJoedabad and feveral other places. 

 In its profperity it was the capital of Babar and Bengal,, for 

 which it was by its fituation particularly well adapted. Its 

 neighbors, Tandah and Pundua •'■, fucceffively capitals and royal 

 refidences, like their predeceff )r Goz^r, are now known only by 

 the heaps of ruins. Mr. Daniell, in his IVth plate, has given 

 a ruin of a fine gateway, with a view of a colonnade, feen 

 through the pointed arch beneath ; the gateway is elegantly 

 carved, and has on each fide an angular tower. All beyond 

 is loft in lofty w^oods. In front is a quantity of thick and tall 

 grafs, out of which are rufhing a wild fow, and its family, 

 which fome natives are watching above to flioot, 



Bernier fpeaks in high terms of the beauty of the Ganges^, 

 from Rajahmahel to its fall into the bay of Bengal. It is filled 

 with illands, thick fet with fruit trees, ananas, and all the 

 fruits of the torrid zone. On each fide of the river appear 

 great canals, the work of human indufi:ry, to convey the pro- 

 duce of the country, and even the facred water to diftant parts. 

 Along the banks are well inhabited villages, and fields of rice, 

 fugar canes, Jefamiim,, and various forts of legumes. 

 F«E Flies. In many parts, efpecially among the channels of the Sunder- 



bundy the bufhes feemed illuminated with the multitudes of the 



• Fitche, an Englifti Merchant, who travelled in India from the year 1583 to 1591, vifited 

 Tanda in Gouren ; great traffic is here, fays he, in Cotton and in Cloth of Cotton j and was 

 fabdued by Zelabdim Echebar. Hackluyt, ii. 256. 



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