FROM AGRA TO OUJEIN. 4i 



Within the city, and near the eaftcrn wall, is a 

 hill of a confiderable height, on the top of which is 

 a Hindu temple of Mahadeo, and adjoining to it the 

 the tomb o{ ^ Mi/fidnm?i faint, named Gqga Sheheed. 

 This hill is conipicuous from a diftance, and a fpec- 

 tator on the top of it commands an extenlive profpcdl 

 on every fide. To the northward he fees, at the dif- 

 tance of four miles, the rude and maliy ftrucrure of 

 Calydeh, an ancient palace, built on an ifland in the 

 Sipparah, by a king of the family of Gour *. There 

 are two fquare buildings, each cov^ered with a hemif- 

 pherical cupola, and divided below into eight apart- 

 ments, bcfides the fpace in the centre. 'i he. com- 

 munication with the land is made by a ftone bridge 

 over one of the branches into which the Sifp^rah is 

 here divided. Below the bridge are feveral apartments 

 conftrncted on a level with the water ; and the rocky 

 bed of the river is cut into channels of various regular 

 forms, fuch as fpirals, fquares, circles, &c. to wd^.ich, 

 in the dry feafon the current is confined. Turning to 

 the weft ward, he traces the winding courfe of the 

 sipparah, through a fertile valley, where fields of corn 

 and clumps of fruit trees interfecSting, diverlify the 

 profpe6l, till his attention is arreUed by the fort of 

 Bciroun-gurh, lituated clofe on the top of the oppofite 

 bank. It is about a quarter of a mile in length, fur- 

 rounded by a rampart of earth, and contains an ancient 

 temple dedicated to the tutelary divinity of the place, 

 ,whofe name it bears. Still farther up the ftreani, and 

 nearly oppofite to the middle of the town, are the gar- 

 dens of Abha-chitnavees and Uaxa Khax. On 

 the latter no decoration of art has been fpared ; the for- 

 mer wantons in all the luxuriance of nature. Exactly 

 over thefe, at the difiance of half a mile from ti'ie 



* A delcription of this extraordinary fabric is inferred in t!;e 

 Oriental Repertory, V. I. p. 'i'if), from a letter of Sir A^'. Mai.i;t, 

 dated at Oujein, 13th April, 1785. The author gives an extra6t fona 

 a hiltory ■>i Malaga, which proves the biiiuiiiig to be the work of 

 JSaltaun Nasik-ud-dfe^t-Gilgef,, fon of GHKAb-rn-DiiKK, w'lo 

 afcended the throne of MalcnKi in tlie year of ihe Ihjiru ()0j, and 

 xcigned eleven years and four nionilis. 



river. 



