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pretenders of higher or lower origin, and may also 

 be held closed for a time against suspicious -looking 

 wandering strangers, who Avould possibly be at once 

 admitted into the courts of heaven, yet are unalter- 

 ably closed persistently from the beginning, or at 

 last in the end only against the hopelessly un- 

 Avorthy. 



THE SCYTHIAX KATH1S. 



I must not leave the city, or rather town, of 

 Jiimighar, without noticing its most remarkable 

 feature the Uparkot or Ooparkdt. This is the 

 ancient fort of Jiinaghar, elevated a few hundred feet 

 above the town, and jealously guarded as if it were a 

 sacred precinct. Were Englishmen in the possession 

 of the state, this high sandstone plateau, with its 

 magnificent view over the country towards the sea, 

 would be at once chosen for their residences ; but I 

 found it to be entirely uninhabited, though adorned 

 by ruins of various kinds. A small side-gate, where 

 a guard was stationed, gave admittance to it, and no 

 one is allowed to enter without a special order from 

 the Nawab. The place was overrun with jungle. 

 Its sides bounded by ditches and walls, with high 

 towers interspersed are two miles, one mile, 800 

 yards, and 700 yards in length respectively, as 

 measured by Colonel Tod. In some places the 

 walls are 100 feet in height; and in old times this 



