40 Travels into I N D I E S. Part TTT 
A lovely Mei- Thoiigh this Town of Fetipour be much decay'd, yet there is ftill a large 
dan at Fed- Squzïc to be feeii in it, adorned with fair Buildings -, and the ftately entry 
AftirMofque of Ecbar's Palace is ftill entire, and has adjoyning to it one of the loveiieil 
Fstipour. Mofques in the Eaft, biiilt by a Mahometan a Calender by profeffion, who 
Caicndirs. lies buried there as a Saint. The Calenders are Derviflies who go bare-footed. 
This Mofque is ftill adorn'd with all its Pillars, and lovely Seclings, and in- 
deed ^ with all that can beautifie a fair Temple. Near to it there is a great 
Refervatory which fuppliçd the whole Town with Water, and was the 
the caiife of more ncceflary that all the Springs thereabouts are Salt ^ and the unwhol- 
forfaking Feti- fome Waters were one of the chief caufes that obliged the Great Mogul to 
four. elfewhere. 
Beruzabnd, Bertiz^abad is one of the Tov/ns of Aira. Chit four is another, and has a- 
chitpour. Bar- great trade in Schites or painted Cloaths. Bargant is likewife one, which 
gant,chaiaoiir, bclougs to a Raja wlio cxads fome dues. Chalaour ftands upon a Hill. At 
da^L-d'la'''' ^^^^P'^"^ lovely Tapiftty is made. Mirda^ Ladona^ Hindon^ Camva^ Bya- 
Hindon "cJm- ^""^ Scmderbade, are alfo Towns of Jgra. Thefe laft furnifli the bcft 
nja. By ana, Indigo of the Lidics. Two Lcagucs homByana there are to be feen the 
and ixander- Ruins of Ancicnt Palaces, and other Buildings -, as alio fome very confide- 
éw?, all Towns rable ones upon a little Hill fome Leagues kom Scander bade. At the Foot 
of ^gra. q£ ^i^^^ Town, there is a lovely Valley walled in, di- 
vided into feveral Gardens, and the Ruins of feveral Building:;, which is not 
to be wondered at, feeing heretofore Scanderbade was feveral Leagues long, 
having been the Capital City of a powerful King of the Patam -, and the 
Hill It felt made part of the Town, which was afterwards fack'd and ruin'd 
Raja Selim, Ecbar.^ whcu he took it from Raja Selim^ who made it his chief Garri- 
fon and Magazin. 
The Royal Upon the Road from Agra to Byana there is a Royal-Houfe, built by 
Houfe ofKing j-^e Quecu Mother of Ecbar^ with Gardens kept in very good order: 
fher ^ T^^^^ ^^^^ '^^ Byana fome SerragUo\ and a long Meidan^ but that Town 
^ is thin of Inhabitants. Seronge hath alfo been named to me amongft the 
x^enfna of Ge- Towns of the Proviuce of Agra, and Schites are made there, which in 
m^Kj, Lanque, beauty comc near thofe of St. "Thomas. There are a great many other 
Cham-Elnady, Towns, whofe Names I know not. The chief Rivers that water Agra^ 
Geogonady, are the Gemna or Geminy, Lane^ue, Cham-Elnady^ Geogonadj, Singour -, and à 
singour zWRi- gj-^^f ^^^y fmaller. 
The KtttmK '^^^ Kings Revenue in this Province of Agra^ is reckoned to amount to 
of jgra. above thirty feven Millions of French-Livres a Year. 
C H A P. XXII. 
Of the Province or Tom of Dehly, or Gehan- 
Abad. 
Thf Province 'TpHc Proviucc of Dehly bounds that of Agra to the North, and at pre- 
of Dehly. J[ fent the Great Mogtd Auran-zeb keeps his Court in the chief City of it, 
which is about fourty five Leagues diftant from Agra. In Indofian it is cal* 
Gehan-dbad. led Gehan-ahad, and elfewhere 
The Road betwixt thefe two Towns is very pleafant -, it is that famous 
A Walk of 150 Alley or Walk one hundred and fifty Leagues in length, which King Ge- 
Leagues. hanguir planted with Trees, and which reaches not only from Agra to Deh- 
ly^ but even as far as Labors. Each half League is marked with a kind of 
Turret : There are threefcore and nine or threefcore and ten of them be- 
twixt the two Capital Cities, and befidcs there arc little Serraglio's or Gir- 
vatiferas, from Stage to Stage fox Jcxiging Travellers. However there is 
nothing 
