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In many parts of Hindostan are mosques and mausoleums, 

 built by the Mahomedan princes, near the sepulchres of their 

 nurses. They are excited by a grateful affection to erect these 

 structures, in memory of those, who with maternal anxiety watched 

 over their helpless infancy; thus it has been from time immemo- 

 rial. How interesting is the inverview which Homer has described 

 between Ulysses and Euriclea! When Rebecca too left her parents, 

 on being betrothed to Isaac, we read that she was accompanied 

 by her nurse, who never left her until the day of her death ; which 

 event is not deemed unworthy of being recorded in the patriarchal 

 annals. " Here Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died, and was buried 

 under an oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth, or 

 the " Oak of weeping." 



Ahmedabad was not always the capital of Guzerat, which 

 was once a kingdom under the Hindoo rajahs, who kept their 

 court at Narwalla, a city renowned in the ancient history of Hin- 

 dostan for wealth, population, and extent. Guzerat, as already 

 mentioned, was always esteemed among the most fertile and beau- 

 tiful countries in India; it was one of the early conquests of the 

 Afghans, a hardy race from the mountains which separate Persia 

 from Hindostan; they are often called Patans. These invaders 

 established the empire of Ghisni in the 36lst year of the Mahome- 

 dan hejira, corresponding with the 975th year of the Christian aera; 

 this empire, in its most nourishing period, comprehended nearly 

 half the kingdoms of Asia. 



The Hindoos, naturally indolent, and, under the influence of 

 their benevolent institutions, fond of peace, were unable to with- 

 stand the incursions of those northern enthusiasts; who, impelled 



