itX NARllATIVE OF A J0l7fi?JEY 



tin the date, igfee- 



aTiAvenng to the year of our aera l66(). 



Within the garden is a monument, to the me- 

 mory of GooxNA Begum, a princefs celebrated for 

 her perfonal accomplifhments, as well as for tlie vi- 

 vacity of her wit, and the fire of her poetical genius. 

 Several of her lyric compofitions, in the fl'mdujianny 

 language, are Itill fung and admired*. She was 

 the daughter of the Nawab All A Kooli Khan, fur- 

 named Chinga, or Shesh Angooshtee, from hav- 

 ing iix fingers on each hand ; a Munfubdar of 5000 

 horfe. His daughter after being betrothed to Shujah- 

 rn Dowlah, was married to Ghazee-ud-deen 

 Khan and. this rivalfliip is faid to have in part laid the 

 foundation of the mortal enmity which afterwards fub- 

 lifled between that Vizier and the Nawab Sufdek 

 Jung, the father of Shujah-ud Dowlah. The 



flirine bears this infcription \\^<^ ^Caj \J>S >i: ^T 

 " Alas ! GooNNA Beoum !" the letters in the origi- 

 nal, taken as numerical cliaradlers, give the date 1189 

 of the Hejiree, or of our aera 1775. 



• One of them Is inferted by Sir WniiAM JcsLs in the AJia- 

 tulic/farcbcs, yoh I. ■p. 05, 



