

G A N G E T I G H 1 N D O O S T A N. 



ViSIAPOUR. 



Buz EuziA 

 Fort. 



at Amednagur in that kingdom, in his winter quarters in 1707, 

 aged 90. He died with the penitence of a long luccefsful robber, 

 juft on the point of being turned off the ladder *. 



Vifapour was conquered by Aiirengzebe in i686. " The 

 *' king prefented himfelf before the vitftor in chains of filver, 

 " and humbled himfelf to the dull: more with the demeanor 

 *' of a captive rebel than a vanquiflied fovereign. It was for 

 " fome time reported and believed that Aurengzebe had put 

 " him to death t." After this, hiftory is filent in refped: to the 

 unfortunate monarch. 



I NOW quit thefe hiftorical points, and refume the topo- 

 graphical. Some miles below Calcutta, on the banks of the 

 Ganges, ftands a mud fort, Buz Buzzia, vulgarly Budge Budge. 

 Thefe are very frequent in many parts of India, and are often 

 the retreat of the better fort of people, in any diftrefs, or in 

 cafes of delinquency. They are chiefly the property of the 

 Zemindars, or hereditary owners of land, who are almoft at 

 perpetual feuds with each other. Mr. Hodges gives a view of 

 one in tab. XX. vol. ii. at Peteter, near Chunar Gur\ they 

 are often of conliderable ftrength. That in queftion was, in 

 the campaign of 1756, fufficiently ftrong to make fome refift- 

 ance againft Admiral Watfon and Colonel Clive, in their way 

 to the retaking of Calcutta. The guns had been filenced by 

 our fhips, but the garrifon continued to difcharge their fire 

 arrows and mufquetry. It was determined to ftorm the place 



* Memoirs of the Mogul empire, tranflatcd by Jonathan Scott, £fq. vol.ii. p. 8. 

 t Orme's Fragments, p. 210. 



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