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covered with ruins, or appropriated to corn-fields and fruit-gardens. 

 Some of the streets were broad, but not planted with rows of trees, 

 as mentioned by Mandesloe, and other travellers; neither are they 

 paved. The triumphal arches, or three united gates, in the prin- 

 cipal streets, with the grand entrance to the durbar, still remain. 

 The mosques and palaces of the Pattans still give evidence of their 

 original magnificence. The streets were spacious and regular; 

 the temples, aqueducts, fountains, caravansaries, and courts of jus- 

 tice well arranged. Commerce, art, and science, met with every 

 encouragement, when a splendid court was kept in this city; it 

 was then the resort of merchants, artists, and travellers of every 

 description; it now exhibits solitude, poverty, and desolation! 

 You behold the most heterogeneous mixture of Mogul splendor 

 and Mahratta barbarism ; a noble cupola, overshadowing hovels 

 of mud; small windows, ill-fashioned doors, and dirty cells intro- 

 duced under a superb portico; a marble corridore filled up with 

 Choolas, or cooking-places, composed of mud, cow-dung, and uh- 

 burnt bricks. 



But declining commerce and ruined buildings are not the only 

 symptoms of decay. I saw a great many unfortunate Pattan and 

 Mogul families, who, having; survived the dignified situation of 

 their ancestors, lived in the gloom of obscurity, and felt the degra- 

 dation of poverty. The young men offered themselves as soldiers 

 of fortune to more flourishing governments, or otherwise sought 

 a provision. Not so the aged, the infirm, and the softer sex; 

 they had seen belter days; " they could not dig, to beg they were 

 ashamed." The jewels and ornaments of the Mogul paraphernalia 

 were privately sold at a great disadvantage, to procure the neces- 



