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been erected by Monahur Khan, the governor, during 
the reign of Akbar, and still remains a monument of 
his magnificence and of the superior skill of the ar- 
chitect, In the year 1773, a brigade of British troops 
under Sir Robert Barker, in their way from Oude, 
having embarked on the river Goomty, at Sultanpoor, 
in the height of the rainy season, sailed over this 
bridge, which was then submerged, yet it suffered no 
damage from the violence of the current. No native 
in modern times is capable of either planning or 
executing such a piece of architecture/' * 
The ruins in and near Juanpoor are extremely grand. 
The town being chiefly inhabited by Mohammedans, 
there are many splendid mosques in the neighbour- 
hood, besides one in the town, called the Atoulah Kau 
Musjid, which is a truly magnificent structure. It 
has already been described in a former volume of this 
work.t The edifices throughout the whole district 
are unlike those met with in any other part of Him 
dostan. They have been generally constructed with 
the materials of ancient pagodas, which were fre- 
quently razed to the ground by the intolerant zeal 
of the Mohammedan conquerors, and upon their sites 
were erected temples for the performance of a new 
worship. This is especially observable in the city of 
Juanpoor and its vicinity, where the remnants of 
Hindoo sculpture are occasionally seen on portions of 
the material. This was perhaps the greatest indig- 
nity that could have been offered to a conquered 
people — especially to a people so wedded to their 
* Description of Hindostan, vol. i. p. 315. 
t See vol. ii. p. 179. 
