240 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
fort now in ruins, built by the Emperor Sher Shah.” (Imp. 
Gaz., ed. of 1887, XII, 380.) This place was visited by Peter 
Mundy in 1631. He calls it ‘ Shawgurr,’ and says it was 8 
course [Koss] from Cole [Koil, 7.e. ‘Alighar]. It seems to have 
been a depot for Saltpetre, and he purchased there 400 fardles 
{about 2,000 maunds] of “ the best Saltpetre that is transported 
out of India to Christendome.” (Travels of Peter Mundy, ed. 
Sir R. C. Temple, Hakluyt Society Edition, IT, 76.) 
Tieffenthaler notices a ‘Scherghar,’ three miles south- 
west of Narvar and says it was ‘“‘entouré de bonnes fortifica- 
tions (firma arce).” Description de l’Inde, I, 182. This place 
was heldin jagir by the Bhopal Bourbons, and they are said 
to have fled to it from Dehli on the sack of that city by Nadir 
Shah. 25°35’ N, 77°58’ E. (Imp. Gaz., ed. 1908, XIII, 324). 
Lastly, there is the “ruined fort of that name in the 
saram Subdivision of Shahabad District, Bengal, situated 
in 24° 50’ N., 83° 44’ E 
(Beveridge, Akbarnaima, Trans., III, 265-6; Badaoni, Trans., 
Lowe, Il, 185), and it is not likely that any coins could have 
H 
. t so incomparably superior to those of its 
competitors as to entitle us to give a definitive verdict in its 
our. 
Junagadh. S. H. Hopivara. 
ZAFARNAGAR. 
of the unassigned mints of the Mughal Emperors of 
One 
India is that of Zafarnagar. “Tam not aware,” says Mr. Nelson 
