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FUTTEHPORE SIKRI. 
THE BHURTPORE OR BIANA HILLS. 
Akbur, Emperor of Delhi, the most renowned of 
all the Mogul monarchs, removed his court from the 
imperial city, on account of the difficult navigation of 
the Jumna in the dry season, and made Agra his 
capital ; the river being up to that place fairly prac- 
ticable, during the greater part of the year. He 
however found the climate of Agra by no means 
comparable to that of Delhi, and glad to escape from 
the heat and glare of the city which he had founded, 
he built for himself a magnificent garden residence, 
at a place called Futtehpore Sikri, about four and 
twenty miles distant from Agra, upon the Delhi 
road. The walls inclosing this royal palace, its 
offices and stately courts, were six miles in circum- 
ference, having within their limits two or three of 
the highest points of the Bhurtpore or Biana range 
of hills. The situation is most romantic, and the 
