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the other fifty rallied round the heroine and performed prodigies 

 of valour. All proving of no avail, the ranee retired into an 

 inner apartment of the palace with her attendants, where having 

 locked the door, she set fire to the building, and perished in the. 

 flames. Sindia, now master of G waller, marched to attack the 

 ran ah in his capital of Gohud, from whence he fled for refuge to 

 the rajah of Caroulee, at a considerable distance. He afterwards 

 unfortunately fell into the power of his enemy, and loaded with 

 chains, drags on a miserable existence in the fort of Gwalier. 



We left Gwalier before day-break on the 5th of Maj r , and 

 proceeded towards Agra, through a country so completely depo- 

 pulated, that in passing near several large ruined villages, we 

 only now and then saw a poor half-starved being peeping through 

 a wretched hovel, hardly able to screen them from the intense heat. 

 A good road soon brought us to Nourabad, where is the hand- 

 somest bridge I have yet seen in India, a large serai, well paved, 

 and beautified by several small domes and minarets : also the tomb 

 of Cunnah Begum, wife of that notorious delinquent and fugitive 

 Ghazyul-din Khan, who died on the road, and was buried under 

 a tree not far from the town, until her mother sent a thousand ru- 

 pees to have her body removed, and interred in a manner more 

 suitable to her former rank. It is now deposited under the mau- 

 soleum of one of the ancient kings in the centre of a garden. 



The river Saunk runs by Nourabad, in a broad and full stream. 

 About four miles further we crossed another considerable river, 

 called Afsan, and halted at Choonda, a small village on the oppo- 

 site side, where we pitched our tents for the night, and the next 



