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Fidgora^ or fire-flies. Ignes fatui were perpetually rifing out 

 of the nitrous foil, like fo many lambent flames, and often 

 globes of fire appeared rifing and fpinning over the ground, 

 till exhaufted, they feemed to fink into the place from whence 

 they rofe. Birds of rich plumage enliven the trees, and gro- 

 tefque monkies gambol amidft the branches; fiflies fport in 

 their element, and the land often prefents the awful glimpfe 

 of treacherous tygers and fpotted panthers. 



Which hufh'd in grim repofc expedt their evening prey ! 



I SHALL here remark, that there is not a quarry on the Quarries very 

 banks of the Ganges for the fpace of five hundred miles, fo 

 that buildings of ftone are in moft places very expenfive. I 

 mull add, that the depth for the fame extent, even quite to 

 the fea, is thirty feet; but immediately at the mouth is ob- 

 ftru6ted by the mud brought down by the floods, that the 

 eaftern or true channel of the river cannot be entered by any 

 large veflels. 



About fixty miles below Rajabniahel, and fixteen from the Moorsheda. 

 weftern fide of the Ganges^ ftands Moorjljedabad ov Muxadabad^ 

 a modern city, now of vaft extent, founded by Moorhed Kuli 

 Kban, Soubahdar of Bengal^ , who was afterwards nobilitated 

 by the emperor, according to the cul^om of the court, with 

 titles, fignifying the faithful fcrvaVit of the empire, the glory 

 of the Jlate, and J offer Khan, the viBorious in zvar ; by that of 



* Narrative of the (Jovcrnment of Bengal, trandatcd from the Perfian, by Fr, Gladwin, 

 Efq. p. 43. 



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