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CHAPTER V. 
NUJIBABAD. NUJIB UD DOWLAlPs TOMB. 
After remaining a few days at Serinagur, where 
we were treated with great kindness by the Rajah, 
we set out on our return towards the plains. We 
reached Nujibabad in about four days, pitched our 
tents and made a short stay there. It is a small 
town built by Nujib ud Dowlah, a Rohilla chief 
of some note in his day, for the purpose of attract- 
ing the commerce between Cashmere and Hindostan. 
It is situated about twenty miles to the south-east 
of Hurdwar, and is ninety-five miles from Delhi. It 
was a place of some importance, though since the 
earthquake at Serinagur, which has interrupted the 
traffic extensively enjoyed by the latter town before 
that event, Nujibabad has been involved in the same 
commercial privation. Of late years its commerce 
has almost totally declined, a circumstance perhaps 
to be finally attributed to the severe shock which the 
Rohilla power received from the British arms during 
the Nepaul war. It is now inhabited by few persons 
of either wealth or consideration, and bids fair in 
another generation to be the abode only of “ the 
moles and of the bats.” 
The town is about three-quarters of a mile in 
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