each fide bounded by mafonry;'and defending to the water
by ftone Jeeps' on every fide-, now greatly ruined. gU judged,
by walking round the lake, and meafuring. it by time, to exceed
a mile. Thé plan of this maufoleum is a fquare bafe,
rifing from the center of the-«lake, having at each angle pavilions
crowned with domes,, and -fimfhed with a cullus ; from
this bale was aduidge, that-, from the ruins now remaining,
n u ll have confifted of fix pointed arches, which communicated
to the fide of the lake, and on two fides are. a double
flight of fteps to the water j qn the bafe is raifed an oétagön
building, haying three pointed arches in each face, and on
each angle ajre pavilions finilhed like the former. Somewhat
behind this runs an oótagon with one window in each fide,
and oh the angles, pavilions like the others below; behind
this, is likewife an odlagon, ninety-two feet in diameter, and
froro the extremes Ipring the dome, which is finiihed on the
top by a fmall pavilion, like, thofe already defcribed. A great
part, of the building is now covered with fhrubs ahd trees,
which have taken root within the ftoncs, and promife a fpeedy
decay, if not a total overthrow, of this grand pile. The
counhy in the neighbourhood is hilly; and furrounding the
lake are hills, formed by the excavations when it was firft
made ; moft of thefe are now" covered with trees. The in-
fide of the building is perfectly plain, nor does it appear
ever to have had any decorations. The tomb of the Emperor
is M l remaining in the center, with feveral others fur-
rounding it, which-are . thofe of his children. The dome,
like the reft of the building, is of a fine gray free-ftone, now
difcoloured by age and negleCf.
O n my return to Buxar, I proceeded-to Bauglepoor, where
I found my friend Mr. Cleveland "on the bed of ficknefs*
which in lefs than three month’s deprived the Indian world of
his valuable life, a lofs irretrievable to his friends,«'1 arid moft
feverely felt by the public.
- • A c o n s t a n t , and indeed! an Inceflant applicafioh to fufr-
lic bulirieis, - without fiiffi’cient care of a very delicate frame*
and poftponing, until it became too,late,^IHe expedienf'of try«
ing a more favourable climate, terminated the mortal exift-
ence of this ineftimable man,' who died on board a ftiip, at
the mouth of the Ganges, in which he had embarked for
the Cape of Good Hope. His remains were brought back
in the pilot veflel that had attended the ftiip, and were afterwards
depofited at Bauglepoor, where a handfome monument
has been ereCted to his memory .
■ I a r r i v e d at Calcutta on the 34th pfj September, after a
journey of nine months and fourteen days* through a country
which had once been fubjeCt to the M o gu ls th e greateft and
the rieheft empire, perhaps, of which the human annals can
produce an inftance, and which was adorned by many really
great characters in politics and in arms.