For?.
B ridge«
SULTANP0UR.
liUCKNOW.
T h e fort at Jonpour is built on a Hoping rock commanding
the Goomty, and is of great ftrength; fee Mr. Hodges, vol. ii.
tab. IX. s It was built by .Sultan Feroze Shah about the year
1102.
In the Ayeen, ii. p. 36, it is called a large city, founded by
Sultan Fer.ooz, king o f Delhi, who named it after his coufin
Fxikered-deen Jowna.
A d j a c e n t to i t is a fine bridge, -founded by Khan Khan nab,
Viiier to Akbar, in 1567. The arches are pointed, and the whole
conftrudted with fuch ftrength, .as,to reiift for fo great a length
•of time the violence of the river. Views of the fort and bridge
.are . . en by Mr. Hodges, in his iid vol. tab. X. The 'Goomty
at certain times fwells fo high as to rife feveral feet over the
bridge. There was an inftance, in 1774, of a whole brigade of
BritiJlj infantry being ferried over it without the left interruption.
Suhanpour is the next place of note in afcendingthe Goomty,
fifty-five miles above 'Jonpour., and ninety-two miles from Sul-
tanpour, ftands Lucknow, of late years .made the capital of, the
provinceof Oude, inftead of the antient city-of that name, being
confidered as more central and more commanding fince the
conqueft of Rohilcund, and .is now the refidence o f the Nabob.
It is extenfive, but meanly built. The walls o f the houfes are
chiefly mud, covered with thatch, and many entirely confift of
mats and bamboos. A few houfes are built of brick; the ftreets
narrow, crooked, and the worft contrived o f any of India. In
the dry feafon the heat, duft, and infefts, make them intolerable
; in the wet feafon they are fcarcely pafiable.. Yet this was
a great city in the time of Abulfazel; how fmall has been the
improvement fince his days. Mr. Hodges, in his travels, has
given
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