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excellency of its waters, salubrity of air, mildness of climate, and 

 temperate constitutions of the natives. Every part is cultivated, 

 and full of inhabitants, so that you cannot travel the distance of a 

 coss (or two miles) without seeing towns and villages, and meet- 

 ing with good water. Even in the depth of winter, the earth and 

 trees are covered with verdure: and in the rainy season, which in 

 many parts of Hindostan commences in Jane, and continues till 

 September, the air is so delightfully pleasant, that it gives youthful 

 vigour to old age." 



In another part of the Ayeen Akbery we find that the im- 

 perial dominions, in the fortieth year of Akber's reign, consisted 

 of one hundred and five Sircars, or provinces; subdivided into 

 two thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven kusbahs, or town- 

 ships. The grand Soobah divisions and subordinate purgunnas 

 of the empire have been already mentioned. The revenue of the 

 whole was then settled for ten years, at the annual rent of three 

 aribs, sixty-two crore, ninety-seven lacks, fifty-five thousand, two 

 hundred and forty-six dams, or sicca rupees 9,0743881, upwards 

 of eleven millions, three hundred thousand pounds sterling. At 

 the death of Aurungzebe, in 1707, from major RenneFs accurate 

 memoir, " the Mogul empire comprehended a tract of country, 

 extending from the tenth to the thirty-fifth degree of north lati- 

 tude, and produced a revenue of thirty-two millions sterling; 

 which, in a country where the products of the earth are about 

 four times as cheap as in England, is an enormous annual 

 amount." 



What infinite advantage, what incalculable benefits, must ac- 

 crue from a wise and liberal administration over those extensive 



