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DEIG. 
SHRINE OE MOHUMMED KAHN. 
The fortress of Deig is about sixty miles north- 
west from Agra, upon an eminence in the Bhurtpore 
range of hills. It is said to be of very great antiquity, 
though it was but a humble fortification before it was 
rebuilt by the great Emperor Akbur. A curious 
legend is told of this place, and made to assume the 
importance of history by the support of Abul Fazil, 
to the effect that after a very elegant and extensive city 
had been completed on this spot by the Emperor, it 
was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, together 
with all its unfortunate inhabitants. Certain it is that 
for very many years, the place, having become a heap 
of ruins, was utterly abandoned and shunned with 
superstitious awe by the people of those parts. In 1760, 
however, Suraj Muhl, the Jhat Raja, found a few cot- 
tages inhabited upon tbe spot, and these he soon con- 
verted into a fortified town for the occupation of his 
troops, who, some years afterwards having become dis- 
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