CHAPTER XXIIJ. 



When Dhuboy was made winter quarters for the Bombay army, 

 during the Mahratta campaign in 1775, I little thought it would 

 so soon belong to the East India Company, and that I should be 

 entrusted with its government; a situation to which I was ap- 

 pointed in 1780, on its being surrendered to general Goddard, in 

 command of the detachment from the Bengal army. 



Dhuboy is the capital of a purgunna, or district, of the same 

 name, in the province of Guzerat which contains eighty-four villages, 

 and yields a revenue of four lacs of rupees, about fifty thousand 

 pounds sterling per annum. The peninsula of Guzerat, two hun- 

 dred miles long, and an hundred and forty broad, is formed by 

 the Arabian sea on one side, and the gulph of Cambay on the 

 other, extending inland in a north and east direction. From ils 

 numerous ports and commercial advantages, the sea-coast contains 

 as great a variety of castes and religions as any part of Hindos- 

 tan. The revenues of this soubah, or province, in the reign of 

 Aurungzebe, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, amounted 

 annually to one hundred and fifty lacs of rupees, or one million 

 eight hundred thousand pounds sterling. Akber, the greatest of 

 the Mogul emperors, divided Hindostan into eleven soubahs, or 



