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red tamarind; a rare tree, equal in size and beauty to the common 

 tamarind, with a fruit far more delicious, and sent in presents as 

 a confection to distant parts of India. The palace was in ruins, 

 and the gardens neglected. Among a variety of trees still remain- 

 ing was a very uncommon species of the palmyra; after growing 

 up in a straight stem, to a considerable height, like others of that 

 genus, it shot forth upwards of forty branches, with a tuft of 

 spreading leaves at the extremity of each branch, like the common 

 borassus flabellifonnis: this tree is esteemed a great curiosity, and 

 visited by most travellers, who, like myself, had perhaps never 

 seen any but the usual palmyra, or brab-tree, which has only 

 branches and leaves on the summit of a straight single stem, forty 

 or fifty feet from the ground. A bridge of forty-eight arches 

 formed a communication with the island, which, like all the sur- 

 rounding ornaments, was in a state of dilapidation. 



At a short distance from Kokarea is the Dutch burying- 

 ground, containing several handsome tombs, in the style of the 

 Mogul mausoleums, covered by a dome supported by pillars. 

 Some of the inscriptions are dated at the commencement of the 

 seventeenth century, when the Dutch had a factory at Ahmed- 

 abad, which has been long withdrawn. The English at the same 

 time carried on a considerable trade at most of the opulent 

 towns in Guzerat. We were shewn the spot in this city where 

 the Company's factory stood in the year 1614; this circumstance, 

 although often doubted, confirms an occurrence in Orme's frag- 

 ments of the English trade at Surat, that in November 1613, 

 Messrs. Aldworlh and VVithington, two of the Company's se.vants, 

 travelled from Surat, to examine the marts of Baroche, Jamboseer, 



