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taken possession of it, were turned out, and that the arrangements now- 

 subsisting were then made for letting out the ground floor apartments 

 so as to provide the means for keeping up at least the small religious 

 establishment still provided. 



Translation of an Inscription on a Gun at Moorsliedabad ivith Re- 

 marks, by Major St. G. D. Showers. 



I send you for insertion in the Journal of the Society a copy of a 

 Persian inscription on a Gun at Moorshedabad. I forward also a trans- 

 lation of the inscription, with a sketch of the Gun. It is lying in a 

 spot called the " Top-khanuh," which, with the " Qabuk-khanuh," in 

 its immediate vicinity, took its name from the guns and ordnance stores 

 collected here by the Nawab Mohabut Jung, otherwise called Ulee- 

 vurdee Khan, when hordes of freebooters, known among the people here 

 by the name of Burgees, (no doubt the Mahrattas,) roamed over the 

 country in search of plunder. Several guns and some shot have been dug 

 up and removed, and there are still two or three lying about or half 

 buried in the earth. The gun on which the inscription is found is 

 named the " Juhan Koosha," the Subduer of the world, and was pro- 

 bably brought by Moorshid Koollee Khan from Dhaka, where it was 

 constructed, when he became invested with the administration of these 

 Provinces. The following are the dimensions of the gun :• 



ft. in. 



Extreme length, 1/ 8 



Depth of bore, 15 3 



From muzzle to 1 st trunnion, 5 



Space between the 2d trunnions, 5 



From 2d trunnion to the breech, 5 



Diameter of muzzle, 1 9£ 



Do. of bore, 



It was made, as the inscription states, at Dhaka during the reign of 

 the Emperor Shah Jahan, and is formed in the old style of welding to- 

 gether a scries of rings over bars of iron. The art of casting cannon 

 was known at Dehli as far back as the reign of the Emperor Babur, 



