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square, with a fountain and cascade on each front. The zenana 

 indicates nothing remarkable in its structure, but the side overlook- 

 ing the Jumna is very pleasant, above a large court, where the 

 emperor, seated in an upper pavilion, received the prostrations of 

 his subjects. 



The grand mosque going fast to decay, is debased to a grain- 

 market. It has been extremely beautiful, and its situation at the 

 immediate confluence of the two rivers, is truly fine. The Hindoo 

 bathing-place is at the bottom of the fort; a flight of indifferent 

 steps leads to the Ganges, where the brahmins make the sacred 

 marks on the face after performing their ablutions. There are 

 three remarkable trees opposite Poppamow, called by the natives 

 Valattee-Emlee, or Europe tamarind, the Adansonia of Linnaeus ; 

 the centre one measures thirty-two feet six inches round the trunk, 

 the tree on the left nearly an inch more, and the other not quite 

 thirty feet. They grow within fifty yards of the Ganges; and 

 about three hundred yards distance is another of still larger cir- 

 cumference. The branches of these celebrated trees rise from the 

 trunks by a large base, disproportioned to their general bulk. The 

 first was extremely small when I saw it, and covered with a doAvn 

 of light green like velvet; it ripens in February, the fruit is then 

 the size of a cocoa-nut, containing a white pulp, abounding with 

 red seeds. The brahmins spoke highly of this fruit, thinking it 

 extremely delicious, and the acid peculiarly grateful. 



The mausoleum of Kusroe, the son of Jehanghire, and brother of 

 Shah Jehan, said to have been assassinated by his connivance, 

 stands at the extremity of Allahabad, without the walls, near the 

 tombs of his mother and sister. The tomb of Kusroe is of plain 



