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Cheeler or Teekum flows on its eastern side; a little below the 

 fort is a kind of bridge without arches, intended as a dam to pre- 

 serve a sufficiency of water for the town, which contains some 

 good houses and several handsome gates, leading to the principal 

 streets, formerly paved, but now sadly out of repair, as indeed is 

 almost every thing in the place. The Mahomedan inhabitants com- 

 plain bitterly of the Mahratta government; the dreadful oppres- 

 sions of the Amul within, and the cruel depredations of the 

 Gracias without the walls, have almost driven them to despair. 

 Here are many splendid remains of Mogul buildings, and ruinous 

 Mausoleums in a grand style; in some of their enclosures the Hin- 

 doos had built small places of worship, which among so bigotted 

 a people appeared very extraordinary; in another place we saw a 

 Mahomedan mosque inhabited by a Hindoo Gosannee. 



We had this day a most violent gale of wind, accompanied by 

 such heavy clouds of dust, that until after a short fall of rain, we 

 could not see each other; this also alleviated the extreme heal, 

 and in the evening the thermometer fell to 60°. A few days be- 

 fore I took a thermometer which stood in my tent at 100°, and 

 carried it into a house, at about eighty yards distant, cooled by 

 tattees sprinkled with water, where in less than an hour it Ml 

 eighteen degrees. 



The nature of the country now made it necessary to discharge 

 the carts drawn by oxen, which had hitherto carried part of our 

 baggage, and to procure an additional number of camels for that 

 purpose; with which, on the 17th, we proceeded to Sarungpoor, 

 a distance of near seventeen miles from Shah Jehanpore; during 

 which we crossed several rivulets, and at length arrived at the 



