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immediate fucceffors of the great Akbar were interred in this
city. His fon Jehangir was depofited in 1627, in a garden near
•the great Bazar. Mahometans deteft all fculpture or painting,
yet the tomb, which is covered with a black hearfe cloth, is bei'et
with portraits with white torches, and the figures of two Jefuits
at each end. It is pretended that the fon and fucceffor, Shah
Jeban, paid them that mark of refpeit, as he and his father had
been indebted to the order for their knowlege in mathematics
and aftrology. Sbab Jeban was buried in this city, in a
tomb begun by himfelf, and which an unnatural fon, who could
fuffer his parent to die in a fevere and long imprifonment,
would never trouble himfelf about completing.
N o t w i t h s t a n d i n g Agra is feated in only Lat. 27°, it is
fubjedt to fharp frofts. Mr. Hodges % when he was there, found
the mornings clear and very cold, and frequently fo frofiy, that
he has feen feveral tanks frozen entirely over ; but in the mid-
die of the day it was generally very hot. In a book, newly tranf-
lated from the Perjian called Mutagherin, or modern times,
p. 287, .there is mention of a froft at Debli which lafted three
nights, by which brazen yeffels filled with water burft. ■ Debit
is feated in Lat. 28° 37'. Mr. Hodges's account of the effedts of
froft at Debli, inclines mp to believe jthat o f the Indian hifto-
rian.
Etawfl is a village on the north fide of the Ganges., once a
confiderable town. The Ravines, vaft chaftns formed by the
rains, which leave on each fide lofty hills truncated on their
tops, are etched by IVfr. Hodges, vol.ji. tab. III. Various remains
of the town appear on the fummits of the cliffs, and even at the
* T ravels , p. 1 1 7 .
bottom
bottom of the very ravines: As to the pafs, it is reprefented m
vol. ii. tab. ii. and exhibits the windings of the Jumna, bounded
by a naked country. The cliff is perpendicular, and fo clofe
to the water, as to render the march extremely difficult.
In the neighborhood of Agra are feveral other fine buildings, F izo zea b ad .
filch as a modern tomb, and a long oratory at Fizozeabad, from
which the Mollabs explain the Koran to the people. Thefe
are in Mr. Hodges, vol. ii. tab. XVIII.; he has alfo given in the
fame vol. tab. XIX. a view of the hunting palace o f Sbekoabad,
now in ruins, once the delight of Dara Sbeko, one o f the unfortunate
fons of Sbab Jeban.
I C A N N O T help digrefiing about fixty miles to the fouth- G w a l i o r F o r t .
weft o f Etawa to Gwalior, a great and ftrong fort, placed on an
infulated rock, Doping like that of Edinburgh or Sterling into
the level,country: the one end is a very lofty precipice. Its
length is four miles, its breadth unequal; the top an inclined
plain ; the walls and towers ikirt the whole edge of the mountain.
This was a confiderable poft as early as the year 1008,
and fo ftrong as feldom to be reduced but by famine : Such was
the cafe when it was taken by the emperor Altumjb in the year
S|gB ft dad been originally a Droog or Hindoo fortrefs. Thefe
fpecies o f elevated infulated rocks are frequent features in India
; fuch were thofe which gave Alexander the Great fo much
trouble in reducing. This became at laft a ftate prifon ; many
a foul and midnight murder has been committed on captives of
royal blood Within its walls. In the neighborhood of this for- L i o n s n r a r
trefs, and that of Rbotai Gur, are numbers of lions. Thofe who THi>T Fort'
deny that thofe animals were natives of India, affert, that here
V ol. II. B b was