There is a large tank belonging to' it, with feveral buildings
fifing from the water, containing pavilions. The whole,
however, is much decayed.
T h e river Soane falls into the Ganges a little above Patna:
at a fmafl diftaace from Patna is Bankepour, where are the
refidences of the Englilh gentlemen, and near to which is the
military Ration of Dinapour.
F rom Patna I followed the fleet, and palled the mouth of
the river Caramnafla, the boundary of Bahar, -and on the
12th of Auguft arrived at Buxar. This is a fort and fmall
military ftation, and was, at the time I Was there, commanded
by Major Eaton. We proceeded from this place'to Gazipoor,
on the eaftem Ihore of the Ganges. At this place are; the
ruins of a fine palace, built in the beginning of this century.
It is raifed on a high bank, and on a point commanding two
great reaches of the river, up and down. From the bank,
which is full thirty feet from the water, is.- raifed another
bafement of brick and mafonry fifteen feet high, in which
are fome apartments: on this is the building, which is an
oblong fquare, with great pavilions at the angles j and in the
center of each fide: the whole is an open fpace, fupported
by colpnades furrounding it.. Within, on the floor of the
building, is a channel for water about four feet wide., which
encircles the floor, and, at equal fpaces, there were formerly
fountains. In the center of the building is a fpace fufficient
16 contain twenty people.
N e a r b y adjoining to this palaceds abuildingforthe pur A
pofe of railing water for the fountains, aid fupplyirig them
by the means of pipes, which communicate with each other.
A bout two miles inland from' the 'river are the remains of
a ferai-j and, nearly adjoining, tombs, built at the fame period
as the.palace. Thefe buildings are in a fine tafle of Moorilh
architecture, and in very good repair. - Views o f dxoth' the
palace and tombs are exhibited to the public in a work which
I publilhed, containing Views in India.
• F rom Gazipoor I proceeded to BenaresPa ddflance df
twenty Fn’glifh miles, and arrived there the day after the
Governor General with his fuite.
I f e l t areal pleafitref on my arrival at this-place, frbm
being able to contemplate the pure;.Hindoo" manners, arts-^
buildings, and cuftoms, undepraved by any intermixture with
fire Mahomedans | and laid my plans- fir observing with- the
utmoft attention whatever came within the fphere of a painter’s
notice. The unhappy events that immediately fucceeded
fruftrated, for the prefent, thofe defigns.
. It would give me pleafure to farisfy; the curiofity of the