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General Wedderburne, Commander in Chief of the Bombay forces, 

 was killed during the siege; a tomb is erected to his memory near 

 the flag-staff tower. In the vicinity of Baroche are several other 

 dilapidated mosques and mausoleums, particularly one called 

 Bawhran, on an extensive scale. The nabob's gardens without 

 the walls, nearly a mile in circumference, are laid out with some 

 taste; they contain several summer pavilions, fountains, and canals, 

 with abundance of oriental fruits and flowers. 



Situated in a fertile province, this city is well supplied with 

 provision: fine beef, mutton, kid, and poultry, at very reasonable 

 rates; with venison, game, wild-fowl, and plenty of fruits and ve- 

 getables; the river Nerbudda, which washes the southern walls, 

 abounds with carp and other fish. 



Baroche has alwaj^s been a place of considerable trade; very 

 extensive cotton manufactures are carried on there; and large con- 

 signments of raw cotton from the adjoining districts are exported 

 in boats to Surat and Bombay, to be shipped for China and differ- 

 ent parts of India; as, from the dangerous navigation in the gulf of 

 Cambay, few large vessels venture up higher than Surat. 



The Nerbudda rises in the mountains far to the north-east: it 

 is esteemed one of the sacred streams of the Hindoos, and through- 

 out the whole day the women of Baroche arc bathing in the river, 

 without being at all abashed by spectators, though no females are 

 more modest than the Hindoos; they shift their garments, consist- 

 ing of a single drapery, elegantly folded, in the most expeditious 

 manner, without the least offence to decency. Custom reconciles 

 every thing; and not a spark of jealousy enters the breast of a brah- 

 min or banian husband, when he sees his Avife bathing in the same 



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