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provided with comfortable quarters in the ancient city of Dhuboy. 

 The remains of its fortifications, gates, and temples, indicate great 

 magnificence. The temple near the east gate, called the Gate of 

 Diamonds, a work of immense labour and expense, must have 

 employed a number of artificers many years. The city is nearly 

 quadrangular, exceeding two miles in circumference: such parts 

 of the fortifications as remain entire are of larse hewn stones, and 

 the interior colonnade is a beautiful and useful work: within 

 the walls is a large tank, surrounded by strong masonry, with a 

 grand flight of steps, the whole extent descending to the water, 

 from the Hindoo temples, choultries, and solemn groves, which 

 generally border this beautiful reservoir. 



Dhuboy, with the other Hindoo cities in Guzerat, became an 

 early part of the Mahomedan conquests, and remained in their 

 possession until the Mahrattas took it on the decline of the Mogul 

 power, in the eighteenth century; it is now chiefly inhabited by 

 Hindoos: a few Mahomedan families are permitted to reside there, 

 on condition of not eating beef. The pundit, or governor, ap- 

 pointed by the ministers at Poonah, submitted to Ragobah, and 

 on our approach acknowledged him as peshwa of the Mahratta em- 

 pire; the latter immediately levied a contribution of three lacs of 

 rupees from the inhabitants, which they were unwilling and almost 

 unable to pay; for, although some cotton manufactures are carried 

 on there, Dhuboy and its dependencies are poor. 



The durbar and some of the principal houses were well built, 

 and the streets generally broad and airy: many acres within the 

 walls were cultivated, and produced abundant crops of corn and 

 vegetables: the city contained about forty thousand inhabitants, 



