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SCENES IN INDIA. 
apartments for the different stipendiaries. In the 
right hand corner there is an elegant mosque, and 
in the left a small pavilion. These gardens have 
suffered greatly from neglect. They are of consider- 
able extent and inspire a solemn impression as you 
enter, which is no doubt enhanced by the desolation 
that seems to reign around. The mind is irresistibly 
impressed with a feeling that it is the abode of silence 
and of death. There is a perception imparted, and a 
sentiment realized, of which we are perhaps never so 
conscious as when we draw nigh to " the place of 
graves,” where C( the prisoners rest together, and hear 
not the voice of the oppressor.” 
Before we quitted this neighbourhood, we visited 
the fort of Toglokabad, at the extremity of one of the 
Mewat hills, not far from the city. It was erected 
by Toglok Shah, a Patan prince of some celebrity, in 
the early part of the ninth century. It is built in a 
bold style, its massy walls bidding defiance to all 
the means of assault practised at that early period ; 
though it is pretended that the use of fire-arms was 
known in India some time previously to the first 
irruption of the Moguls into Hindostan, three cen- 
turies before its invasion by Timour, when that 
portion of the peninsula between the Indus and the 
Ganges, to which his family so rapidly succeeded, 
was under the Patan, or Afghan government : so 
that cannon might have been in use when this fort 
was erected — indeed the strength of its defences would 
imply that even in that early age sieges had already 
become formidable. 
The tomb of the founder is seen near the fort, and 
