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'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. I.' [‎70] (95/342)

The record is made up of 1 volume (315 pages). It was created in 1798. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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FORSTER’S TRAVELS .
Mahometans, who as furioufly deftroyed every monument and cu
rious veftige not expreffive of their dodlrine, as they were adluated
by a blind zeal in its propagation and fupport, have endeavoured
to claim the conftrudlion of this pillar, and over the Hindoo re
cord, they have engraved the names of many of their emperors,
fince the time of Babr.*
This pillar, which bears the mark of great antiquity, clearly
evinces that Allahabad was a place of importance long before the
aera of the Mahometan conqueft of India. We fhould pafs in
deed a contemptuous, not to fay an unjuft cenfure, on the under-
ftanding of the ancient Hindoos, did we fuppofe that they had
overlooked a fituation, at once fo favourable to the performance of
their religious duties, and fo happily adapted to the enjoyments of
life. Almoft as many cities have been brought forward by mo
dern writers to prefer their claims to the Polybortha of India, as
of old, contefted for the birth-place of Homer. Monfieur d’An-
ville, the celebrated French geographer, feems to give the palm to
Allahabad. Strabo has made mention of a grand caufeway, lead
ing from Polybortha into the interior parts of the country, and as
fuch ftrudhires are durable and confpicuous, it is to be fuppofed that
fome remains of this road would have yet been vifible ; but on a
careful examination I could not difeover its moft diftant trace.
A mound of earth appears on the weftern fhore of the Ganges,
* The firft Emperor of the race of Timur, who fat on the throne of Hindoftan.
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A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. I.

Publication details: printed for R Faulder, New Bond-Street, London. 1798.

Physical Description: Quarto. Contains a folded map.

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1 volume (315 pages)
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