> DELHI 
eontinued to increafe in {plendour and gi ale tee until it 
was entered in 1738- 9 a2) Nadir Shah, the ufurper of t 
anded 30 milion ‘en ng, by a 
matfacr cres, and famine were the refalt ; 
ae oof the inhabitants were ogee, and 62 millions 
of plunder were faid to be colle&ted. It was again plun- 
dered and a ade by one cane in 1756, 1759s 
although during the time of Aurungzebe, it 
Abdalla on 
this occafion became emp of i3 
tions had led him to efhablith ‘pimfelf i in Hindottany it is pro- 
bable that he might have begun a new dyna mperors 
in his own peifon. ‘Shah-Aulum, the lineal Gucendnt of 
the houfe of Timur, afpired to poffefs the capital city of his 
anceftars, and with this view put himfelf into the hands of the 
Mahrattas, who promifed to feat him on the throne of Delhi. 
Thus deluded, he left Allahabad, where he refided under the 
Monat, s 
nglith, Since the peace of 1782, Mada. 
jee Sindia, a Mah hratta nehick and the poffeffor of the principal 
. part of STARA the leadat Delhi, and taken poflefficn 
of feveral places,witha view to extend his conquelts on the fice 
of Agimere, and to eltablifh a confiderable {tate or re 
Delhi is not fo well built as Agra. It is not eafy to 
afcertain its extent, “_ was faid és Sau as we have 
above menti millio ons of inhabita ts. Bernier, 
enned ‘his account ia 
it is well known that, under his reign, both the empire and 
Bernier efimated the cir 
within the GaGa 
fuburbs, but altogether, no extraordinary extent fora capital 
ndia. He defcribes s being confide nace 
larger. After the plunders an 
dergone, fince the decline and downfali of the Mogul ie a 
it muft be fu 
moderate extent ; and even for an Indian city, very ill built. 
Claud Boudier found the latitude of Delhi to be 28° 37’, and 
its longitude 77° 40° hea cee from which we fhall 
make the following extreéts is the lateft we have feen, and 
we have no reafon to a os panel t is extracted 
from a journal of obfervations mcde during an official tour 
through the Dow ab and the ace dilleicts, by heutenant 
W. Franklin, in :pany with captain Reynolds of the 
Bombay a wean appointed by the Bengal government 
‘to furvey that par he ees in the year 1793. (Afi- 
atic Refearches, ae iv. p.417, & he extent of the ruins 
of old Delhi cannot, as this writer fuppofes, be lefs than a 
circumference of 20 miles. he environs to the N.W. are 
crowded with the remains of {pacious gardens and country- | 
with 
Ali 
ext 
o Delhi, where it ae ae the Jumna ; » fer- 
e than go miles in length, 
§° 3 36° he city is about 7m lees in circumference 
and is furrounded on three fides by a wall of brick dnd flone ; 
nd See which it has un— 
ofed to have been reduced very low; and’ 
accordingly, it is fpoken of by late travellers as a city of. 
‘ 
a parapet runs along the whole, with loop-holes for mut-- 
Th 
ne, and have handiome 
arched etnioneee of ftone, where the guards of the city keep 
Near the Ajmere gate is a ‘* Madriffa,” or college, 
erected by the nephew of Nizam-ul-Moolluch 3; it is built of 
red ftone, and idee at rg etl of a fpacious quadrangle, 
with a ftone fountain. upper end of the area is a 
handfome m e built . ae hone inlaid with white marble. . 
The udents are on the fides of the 
an mf for t 
{quare, divided into fe rn chambers, which are fmall but’ 
com aedian: The tomb of Ghazi, its founder, is in the 
corner of the fquare, furreunded by a fhrine of white marble, 
pierced with lattice-work, Thecollege is now fhut up, and 
deftitute of inhabitants. In the neighbourhood of the 
one of the: 
feet ae n which are infcriptions in an ancient character. 
ihe city of New Delhi are the remains of many. 
fplendid palaces, belonging to the great Omrahs of the em- 
pire; all of which are furrounded with high walls, and oc. 
cupy a foie atte {pace of ground. 
alee a lofty arched pateawaye of bri ick a 
top of which are the galleries for mufic ; 
{pacious court-yard for the elephants, hares, and attendants 
of the vifitors. Each palace has likewife a ‘* Mahal,” or 
feraglio, adjoining, which is ae abcde from the * Dewan-~ 
Khana,” by a partitron-wall, and communicates by means of 
private paflages. AJ] of them had gardens with capacious 
ftone-refervoirs, and fountains in the centre 
confifting of five ditinad apartments, into whica light is 
admitted by glazed windows at the top o of the domes. 
Shah Jehanabad is alfo adorned with many fine mofques, - 
feveral of which are ftillin perfect repair and Desi ne 
Mul. - 
il 
ence, 18 oy a figh 
a ee gate-wa fione. crs of this gate- - 
way are covered th ‘ated with plates of wrought brafs,: 
imagined by Mr. Bernier to be copper. e terrace on 
which the mofque is fituated, is a {quare of about 1400 - 
yards cf red flone; in the centre is a fountain iined wit 
marble, for the purp the neceflary ay eee 
previous to praver. ched colonuade of red fto 
An. ar 
pavilions at convenient diftances, accommodated 
The mofque is of an oblong form, 261 feet long, furrounded - 
at the top, with three iagminccit domes of white marble, 1 in 
terfeted by black ftripes, and flanked by two minarets of 
_black marble and red ftone alternately, rifing to the height - 
of 130 feet. Each of thefe minarets has three projeGiing gal- 
leries of white marble ; and car fummits are crowned with - 
light oGagon pavilions of th whole front is 
faced with large flabs of peaueral white saatcles 3 and along . 
the cornice are 10 compartments, 4! - long, and 23 ie 
laig.-. 
