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m Account oj iSijAPUR in icsit, by Capt. G, Sydei^ 

 iMAM^ of the Madras F-fiabliJIiment^ Communicated bj 



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There is perhaps noplace in. India Iq[s kaowoj and more wortliy 

 ■of being known, to Europeans* than Bijdpur, Few have (eeu th/s 

 Ciiys and Hill fewer have defcribed ito Theaccouat of Taverniee, 

 £he firil Earopean traveller of note who vifited k, and who was 

 there, it appears, in 1648 A. D, is flraD,gelf maccurate. This au- 

 : ihority is followed bv ThevenoTj who kad not the means of afceitain- 

 mg Its trtith by perfonal obfervation^ Both deferibe Blja^ur^ as a 

 City exbibitiog nothing remarkable but crocodiles in the 6:\lch which 

 ■■fiirrbunds it. Had Bermier, the moll intelligent and corred of all ihs 

 ■writers of that period upon Indu, fcen Bijapurs he would have 

 vindicated it from the mifreorefeoi-'adons of his oredcceflors : and 

 mofl: probably have affoclated with the QitiQs, of Belli and Agra, of 

 which he has given fo faithful aad interertmg a delineation, the ca- 

 pital of the AAdil Shahi dynady (a)o Orme, in his fragments, laments 

 the Want of informatioa refpeamg Bijapur i and we arc indebted 

 io M-j]ov Moor (b). for having detefted and e7??>ofed the inaccuracies 



(a) See Scott's Uistory of (l,c Dekkan, vol. u y^. 2Q/. 



