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hind, - as 'if purfued by an enemy, and.then inftantaneoufly
flopping, and flying back with the fame-velocity as they .advanced,
to the great terror of t o p®» people in their .way:
T heir adroitnefs in the management of their horfes'is, indeed,
wonderful; though, from the appearance of the animals, one
would doubt whether they were able to move five miles . '
To.thefe I may add the majeftic movements of the elephants
: not only of thofe which carried ther grëat men, but
of thofe with the heavy ^baggage. The appearance, m'deed,.
of the whole army, with- the camels, artillery, and baggage
Cattle, formed a fcene highly gratifying to the mind, entirely
new to a European, of Angular variety, and 'even. fublihie.
I could not, however, but obferve the great apparent want of
order in the line of march; not that my knowledge .of the
military art was fuflicient to qualify me for palling a decided
judgement; but the order I had feen in the camp under Sir
Eyre Coote, ihrthe Carnatic, and when thofe troops marched
towards the enemy, gave me very different impreffions from
that which was now before me.
T h e town of Euttypoor Sicri, which lay under the hills I
have before mentioned, is confiderable, and the country immediately
near it is in tolerable cultivation. On thé fummit
0f the higheft hill is a large mofque, which was built by
Acbar. The building is inahigh ftyle of Moorilh architecture.
The afcent from the foot of the hill is by a flight o f
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brbad fteps, extepdinlg db the principal1' entrance, which-is
ttirougH'a^poflal -of^greatimagnificencer ' Aftejr-thi®wd’enter
aTErge, -ffquari^; 'pcived' | tHrdUg|p^&J^ in which' is!' the^mdfque,
-ahd round the fides' are^patiments/'fo^-the; flifferehrbrie®
At the-fqofr^fsthe hill bniwHieh t h e ^ ^ U ^ i s !fit|ked^ar8'
uhertemaihsJ’o£ the palace,tqe^upying'a greft extent ^igfawad'
The palace is:rin total* him, r io^ l^ ^ lf apartmentTeiBaMhg1*;
and • the- qhlyJ-part w h iH | |^ io r iS&
beauty is' the ’principal gate.' At tfe;li^ka©|: thfe* hi|wl.ori
which the mofque^arid'*‘pklace;kfe.*b,uilt, was* a lake,
by great mounds of earth, artificiallyitaifed in ‘'the
water," on' which, when the’palacetw.as inhabited^ ’.a number
of fine boats were kept =df every defcription, for the yKer-
tainment of the imperial family. The' boundaries'«add-hanks
of the lake are now only to be traced, many parts of it oeing
not only quite dry, but in aftual cultivation. Throughout
this part of the country the water is very had, except at the
mofque,1 where it is quite the contrary, the wells being funk
confiderably .lower than ufual, in faft, below the depth where
the falt-petre is generated. While we continued here our feelings
informed us o f . a-confiderable increafe in the heat of the
Weather, in the courfe of a few days.
W e remained at Futtypoor Sicri until the twerityTixth,
when the camp moved to Siedpoor,' about feven-bofsy or a
little more. Here we found the face of the country greatly-
altered; we marched, through a territory in many parts well