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trical than Delhi, he determined to make it liis capital. 
He therefore gave orders that the city of Delhi, which was 
then the envy of the eaftern world, fhould be rendered de¬ 
folate ; and that men, women, and children, with all their 
effedls and cattle, fhould make a grand migration to 
Deogur. To add' magnificence to this remove, he com¬ 
manded trees to be torn up by the roots, and planted in 
regular rows along the road, to yield the emigrants a 
convenient fhade ; and that 'all who had not money to 
defray their charges, fhould be maintained at the public 
expence. He ordered that for the future Deogur fhould 
be -called Dowlatabad, or the Fortunate City; in which 
he raifed noble buildings, and dug a deep folfe round the 
walls # which he repaired and beautified. 
But this vvhimfical fancy by no means realized the 
high expectations formed of it by tlie fultan; on the con¬ 
trary, it was pregnant with mifehief to his private affairs, 
as well as to the ftate. Mohammed firll began to expe¬ 
rience thefe evils, in confequence of fending an exprefs 
mandate to Ibah, viceroy of Moultan, for him forthwith 
to difpatch all the principal families and artifans within 
his viceroyalty, to enlarge the new metropolis of Dowla¬ 
tabad ; but no attention whatever was paid to this requi- 
fition ; and Ibah, knowing the vengeful dilpolition of Mo¬ 
hammed, was refolved to feek his fafety in arms, in which 
he was fupported by the people. The armies met; and, after 
a great daughter, Ibah fled to the mountains. Mohammed 
immediately gave orders for a general maffacre of the in¬ 
habitants of Moultan ; but Shech Rukun interceded for 
thefn, and prevented the effefts of this cruel fcntence. 
Ibah was purfued and taken, and his head brought to the 
king, who returned towards Delhi. At fight of their native 
city, all thofe in his army who had been forced away to Dow¬ 
latabad began to defert, and difperfed themfelves in the 
woods. The emperor, to flop the mifehief of defertion, 
again took up his abode in the city of Delhi, for the fpace 
of two years. But at the end of that period he carried 
off the whole inhabitants a fecond time to the Deccan ; 
leaving the noble metropolis of Delhi a habitation for the 
wild beafts of the foreft. Mohammed at length law the folly 
of this capricious whim, which had thrown all his loyal 
fubjefts into a ftate of the utmoft difeontent; and all the 
difaffefted ones into open rebellion. But conviction came 
too late. The mortifying fituation of his affairs threw 
him into an ardent fever, and he died in the year of the 
heglra 752, A. D. 1351, after having reigned twenty- 
feven years. 
Upon Mohammed's death, Ferofe III. firft coufin to 
Mohammed, and on whom he had fixed the fucceflion, af- 
cended the throne. Ferofe, having gained over the ma¬ 
jority of the omrahs to his intereft, f’ucceeded, after much 
difficulty, in reftoring order and difeipline to the army. 
He then endeavoured to renew the former f'plendour of 
Delhi, where he kept his court. In the year of the he- 
gira 755, he built the city of Ferofabad, named after him- 
felf, fituated on a molt enchanting f'pot, three miles dil- 
tant from Delhi. In the following year he made a canal 
at Debulpour, 100 miles in length, uniting the Suttuiuz 
with the Jidger. And between fine hills of Mendouli and 
Sirmore, he cut a channel from the Jumna, which he divi¬ 
ded into feven ftreams; one of which he brought to Hafli, 
and from thence to Deraifen, where he built a flrong caf- 
tle, calling it by his own name. He alfo formed a navi¬ 
gation from the Cagar, palling by the walls of Sirfutti, 
and joined it to the rivulet of Kera, upon which he built 
a city, named alfo after himfelf Ferofabad. This city 
he watered with another canal from the Jumna. Thefe 
works were of the utmoff advantage to the neighbouring 
diftricts, by fupplying them with w'ater to irrigate their 
lands, befides the benefit of water-carriage from place to 
place. 
Ferofe, infread of plundering his fellow men, evidently 
fought to enrich his empire by works of the higheft uti¬ 
lity, tending to increafe the commerce and induftryof his 
people. Being informed, that near Hirdar, in the pro¬ 
vince of Sirhind, there tras a mountain, frcmwhf k ’fined 
a great ftream of water, which fell into the Suttuiuz; and 
that beyond that place there was a fmall rivulet called 
Selima, divided only by a rifing ground from the large 
ftream; the emperor considered, that, by making a cut 
through this high ground, the great ftream might be car¬ 
ried into the rivulet, and fo form a river to water the 
countries of Sirhind and Munfurpour, from whence it 
'might be carried to Sunnam, and thus., -by the advantage 
of irrigation, render a prodigious tradl .of land fertile. Ke 
therefore ordered fifty thoufand labou&rs to be collected 
together, to cut the .paffage, which having effected, lie 
buiit a fort on the fpot, which he-called Ferofepour. To 
give Security to the diftrict, he invelted the neighbour¬ 
ing Hindoo fort of Naugracut, where he reduced the 
rajah, but confirmed him again in-his dominions ; chang¬ 
ing the name of Naugracut, to that of the City of Mo¬ 
hammed, in honour of the former fAtari. Ferofe was told 
here, that the goddefs, whom the Hindoos worfliippe 1 
in the temple, v'as the image of. Nofhaba, the wife of 
the great Secunder, which that conqueror had left with 
them. In the- temple there was alfo a fine library of the 
books of the Brahmins, confifting of thirteen hundred 
volumes. Ferofe ordered one. of the books, which treated 
of philofophy, aftrology, and divination, to be t ran fluted 
into the Perfian language, and called it “ The Arguments 
of Ferofe.” 
After many years fpent in afts of beneficence and juf- 
tice, age and infirmity began to prefs upon Ferofe; fo that 
he was induced to refign the reins of the government into 
the hands of his fon Mohammed. The prince afeended 
the throne in the year of the hegira 789; and ordered the 
chut’oa to be read jointly in his own and his father’s 
name. He fettled the offices iff ftate, and diftributed pre- 
fents among the omrahs. Mohammed, however, inffcead 
of regulating bis government by the excellent example 
of his father, gave himfelf wholly up to the enervating 
enjoyments of the harem. The emperor’s nephew, Baha, 
refolved to rufh upon him in the midft of his dream of 
pleafure. He, for this purpofe, confpired with fome of 
the omrahs, and arming one hundred thoufand fUves, 
foon erefted the ftandard of rebellion. The Haves, upon 
the third day, brought out the aged fultan in his palan¬ 
quin, and fet him down in the ftreet, between the comba¬ 
tants. When the troops law their, former king, their af- 
fedfion returned; and, imagining that this was a volun¬ 
tary deed of his, they atbnce deferted all other parties, and 
crowded with fhouts of joy to Ferofe. Mohammed fled, 
with a fmall retinue, to the mountains of Sirmore. But 
Ferofe, unable to govern on account of the infirmities of 
age, placed, by advice of the omrahs, Tuglick, the fon 
of his 'eldeft Ion, the decealed prince Fatte, upon the 
throne. Ferofe, having now arrived at the age of ninety, 
died ill the year of the hegira 790, A. D. 1388. He reigned 
thirty-eight years and nine months, and left many lading 
memorials of his fame in Hindooftan. He buiit fifty great 
fiuices, oraquedu&s, for the purpofes of irrigation ; forty 
molques for the Mohammedan religion ; thirty fchools 
for the advancement of fcience and literature'; twenty ca- 
ravanferas for the accommodation of merchants and tra¬ 
ders ; a hundred palaces for himfelf and different branches 
of his family and friends ; five hoipitals for cafualties of 
every defeription; a hundred maufoleums or tombs for 
departed relatives; ten baths for the encouragement of 
cleanlinefs ; one hundred public bridges; and funk one 
hundred and fifty tanks or wells, for the refrefhment of 
cattle, and the comfort of weary travellers. 
Tuglick II. mounted the throne in the new palace of 
Ferofabad, at a fmall diftance from Delhi; but giving the 
reins to his youthful pafflons, and negle&ing the im¬ 
portant affairs of the ftate, vice, luxury, and oppreffion, 
began to predominate on every fide. He confined, and 
cruelly treated, his brother Sallar and his coufin; Abu 
Becker, dreading a fiinilar treatment, fled the court, and 
ftirred up rebellion. The confpirators ruflied into the 
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