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with that of a foreign prince. Such ruins are said to exist to this 

 clay, not close to Cambat, but at a place called Cavi, or Cavi-gaw, 

 to the south of Cambat, where are temples and other buildings, with 

 statues half buried in the sands, by which this place was over- 

 whelmed." 



I saw nothing of the column above-mentioned, which desig- 

 nated the name of Cambat, but such were not uncommon in for- 

 mer times, as we find from the pillar at Delhi, still remaining, which 

 is generally, although improperly, called the pillar of Feeroze Shah. 

 It consists of a single stone of a reddish colour, tapering upwards, 

 and is now thirty-seven feet above the hunting palace that sur- 

 rounds it. It is said that only one-third of this column is visible, 

 the rest being buried under ground and concealed by ruins. Fee- 

 roze Shah, whose name is now attached to .this pillar, though it 

 must have been erected as some Hindoo monument at a much ear- 

 lier period, reigned at Delhi between the years 1351 and 1388 A. D. 

 in which he died, at the age of ninety. A part of his character in 

 Ferishtu's history shews what may be done by a benevolent and 

 peaceful monarch : " Though no great warrior in the field, Feeroz 

 Shah was by his excellent qualities well calculated for a reign of 

 peace. He reigned thirty-eight years and nine months, and left 

 many memorials of his magnificence in the land. He built fifty 

 great sluices, forty mosques, thirty schools, twenty caravansaries, 

 an hundred palaces, five hospitals, an hundred tombs, ten baths, 

 ten spires, one hundred and fifty wells, one hundred bridges, and 

 the pleasure-gardens he made were without number." 



It is probable the column which gave its name to Cam bay re- 

 sembled the Lat, or pillar of Feroze-Shah. The remains may be 



