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SCENES IN INDIA. 
length, and pleasantly situated on the northern bank 
of a small lake. The streets are in general broad, 
regular, and remarkably clean for an Indian town. 
They are divided by barriers at different intervals, 
forming distinct bazaars in which the scene is suffi- 
ciently busy, although much less variety is now dis- 
played there than formerly. A traffic of great extent 
used to be carried on at Nujibabad in wood, bam- 
boos, copper, tincal, musk, and honey, from the hills. 
In the height of its prosperity it was also the entrepot 
of a trade from Lahore, Cashmere, and Cabul, to the 
east and south-east of Hindostan. The situation of 
the town is low and the surrounding country swampy ; 
thus in consequence of the superabundant vegetation 
collecting and condensing the exhalations, together 
with the various vegetable substances continually 
scattered over the surface of the soil being put into 
a state of active fermentation by the heat reflected 
from the neighbouring hills, the atmosphere is very 
uncongenial to any but a native constitution. Even 
the natives themselves do not exhibit that bodily 
energy and muscular vigour of frame so common to 
the more hardy inhabitants of the mountains. 
In the neighbourhood of Nujibabad are the remains 
of some fine buildings, and just without the town is 
seen the tomb of its founder, Nujib ud Dowlah. 
Though distinguished by little ornament, it is never- 
theless imposing from the quiet elegance and solemn 
simplicity of its structure. It is a square building 
flanked with four cupolas stuccoed with chunam, 
and having a dome covered with the same material 
rising out of the centre. It is protected by four massy 
