FROM AGRA TO OUJEr^^ 3i 



filled, rendering the paflage dangerous for horfes. The 

 road to that river is through a jungle, and in feveral 

 parts uneven ; the remainder good^ though a culti^ 

 vated country. 



April 3. — Marched S 51:^ W, 16,11 miles to Bo- 

 fal. About four mJles from Anucry is alteep pafs, up- 

 hill, for the fpace of about twenty paces. The re- 

 mainder of the road is good. The firft part of it is 

 through a thick jungle, the laft through a cultivated 

 country. The town of Bopdl is extenlive, and fur- 

 rounded with a ftone wall. On the outlide is a large 

 gunge, with ftreets wide and ftraight. On a riling 

 ground, to the fouth-weit of the town, is a fort, called 

 Futleh gurh, nev/ly erefted, and not yet quite finifhcd- 

 It has a ftone wall, with fqua-rc towers, but no ditch. 

 The fpot on which it is built is one folid rock. To 

 the fouth-wefl, under the walls of this fort, is a very 

 extenfive tank or pond, formed by an embankment, at 

 the confluence of live ilreams, ifliiing from the neigh- 

 bouring hills ; which form a kind of amphitheatre 

 round the lake. Its length is about fix miles, and 

 from it the town has the addition of Tdl to its name, 

 Theie hills, and others in the neighbourhood, con-' 

 tain a foft free Itone, and a reddilli granite, the latter 

 of which feems well calculated, for buildings that will 

 refifl water, and the injuries of the weather : it is ac- 

 cordingly ufed in the new embankment which is now 

 building at the eaft end of the lake. From this part 

 iflues the fmall river Patara^ and it is laid that the 

 Bctwah takes its rife from another part of the-fame. 



The town and territory of Bopdl are occupied by a. 

 colony of Patans, to whom they were aliigned by 

 AuRUNGZEBE. Thc prefcnt Nawab Mohammed 

 Hyat, a man about fixty years of age, had from indo- 

 lence, love of pieafure, w^ant of capacity or devotion- 

 (for Ihave heard each of thefe reafons afiigned) religned 

 tlie whole adminiilration into the hands of his Dewan 



(lince 



