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At the distance of about three miles west of the town is a singular 

 hill called Peer Puhury, from the tomb of a Peer, or saint, situated on 

 the summit. His name was Huzrat Ibraham Byjoo, who from the 

 subjoined copy of the inscription over the tomb appears to have died 

 in 753 Hijree, (1352 a. d.,) or nearly five centuries ago, during the 

 reign of the Pa tan monarch Feroz Sooltan, and about forty or fifty 

 years before the invasion of Tymoor. This inscription is so far im- 

 portant that it verifies the date assigned to Feroz Shah being Slara 

 Rajab by Ferishta.* 



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The tomb is a common square building, surmounted by a dome. 

 The hill on which it stands is a very remarkable one. It is composed 

 of cuboidal masses of crystallized sandstone having a fanciful resem- 

 blance to horn, and thence called by the learned, " Hornstone." The 

 upper part of many of the rocks is soft sandstone, while the lower is 

 crystallized ; this is probably owing to decomposition, but the natives 

 conceive it to be a new accretion, and maintain that the rock grows, 

 " jeeta" a not uncommon idea even in England. 



* Vide Prinsep's Useful Tables, page 147. 



