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very trifling. Cotton cloths are still manufactured, 

 and the inhabitants export indigo. Their chief im- 

 ports are by means of the northern caravans which 

 come once a year and bring with them from Cabul 

 and Cashmere shawls, fruit, and horses; the two for- 

 mer articles are procurable in Delhi at a reasonable 

 rate. There is also a manufacture at Delhi for beed- 

 ree hooka bottoms. The cultivation about the city 

 is principally on the banks of the Jumna, where it is 

 very good ; the neighbourhood produces corn and 

 rice, millet and indigo. The limes are very large and 

 fine. Precious stones likewise are to be had at Delhi, 

 of very good quality, particularly the large red and 

 black cornelians; and peerozas are sold in the bazars. 

 The city is divided into thirty-six mohauls or 

 quarters, each of which is named either after 

 the particular Omrah who resided there, or from 

 some local circumstance relative to the place. It 

 appears that the modern city of Shah Jehanabad has 

 been built principally upon two rocky eminences ; 

 the one where the Jama Musjid is situated, named 

 Jujuhi Pahar ; and the other, the quarter of the oil- 

 sellers, called Bejula Pahar: from both of these emi- 

 nences you have a commanding view of the remain- 

 der of the city. Ancient Delhi is said by historians to 

 have been erected by Rajah Delu, who reigned in, 

 Hindostan prior to the invasion of Alexander the 

 Great; others affirm it to have been built by Rajah 

 Pettourah, who flourished in a much later period. 

 It is called in Sanserif Indraput^ or the abode of 

 Indra, one of the Hindu deities; and it is also 



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