FROM AGRA TO OUJEIX. i5 



'•witl^iii fifteen miles of the Nerhiulda, it purfues a 

 north-eafterly direcftior), and after waihing the city 

 of Kotah^ and receiving the tribute of many fiib- 

 ordinate ftreams, at length empties it felf into the Jumna^ 

 twenty miles below Etdzva. The whole length of its 

 courfe is about 440 miles. The breath of its channel, 

 at the ford of Keyteree, is three quarters of a mile. 

 That village ftands on tlie fouthern bank, which is 

 bold and lofty. In the rainy fealbn, when the channel 

 is full, the profpeft of fuch a body of running water, 

 bounded by hills, which rife in a variety of fantaftic 

 Ihapes, forms a landfcape peculiarly interefling to a 

 traveller^ whofe eye has been fatigued with contem- 

 plating the uniformity of that vail plain, which is em- 

 traced between the Ganges and the Jinima. 



Chooh-Seray is a fmall village, with a mud fort, in 

 which relides a collector on the part of the Mahrattas, 



Feb, 28. — Marched S 29 E 17, 2 miles, to Noor- 

 ahad, a large village, on the fouth bank of Sank river, 

 over which is a bridge of feven arches, very well 

 built of ftone. Adjoining to the village is a pretty 

 large garden, enclofed -by a lione wall ; the work of 

 AuRUNGZEBE, as appears by the following infcription, 

 over the gate : 



JJ^ 



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TRANSLATION. 



" This garden was planted by the the king Aalum- 



GEER, 



^' Whofe univerfal bounty rivals that of the Sun, 



in all his fplendor : 

 *' When he demanded a fentence to denote its date 

 ** An invifible voice replied thpu haft feen the 



ganhn of beauty y 



A. Hej. 1077. The 



