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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. II.' [‎12] (25/314)

The record is made up of 1 volume (297 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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mam
i a FORSTER’S TRAVELS.
ere6led a mofque to the honor of a Muckdoom Saheb, who is as fa
mous in their tales, as Thomas-a-Becket in thofe of Canterbury.
The men never undertake a bufmefs of moment without confulting
Muckdoom Saheb ; and when a Kafhmirian woman wants a hand-
fome hufband or a chopping boy, flie addreffes her prayer to the
miniflers of this faint, who are faid to feldom fail in gratifying her
wi(h* The northern view of the lake is terminated at the diftance
of twelve miles, by a detached range of mountains, which Hope
from the centre to each angle *, and from the bafe, a fpacious
plain, preferved in conftant verdure by numerous ftreams, extends
with an eafy declivity to the margin of the water.
In the centre of the plain, as it approaches the lake, one of
the Dehli emperors, I believe Shah Jehan, conftrufted a fpacious
garden, called the Shalimar, which is abundantly flored with fruit-
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trees and flowering fhrubs. Some of the rivulets which interfeft
the plain, are led into a canal at the back of the garden, and flow
ing through its centre, or occafionally thrown into a variety of
water-works, compofe the chief beauty of the Shalimar. To
decorate this fpot, the Mogul princes of India have difplayed
an equal magnificence and tafle j efpecially Jehan Gheer, who,
with the enchanting Noor Mahl, made Kafiimire his ufual refi-
dence during the fummer months, and largely contributed to
improve its natural advantages. On arches thrown over the
canal, are eredted at equal diftances, four or five fuites of apart
ments, each confifting of a faloon, with four rooms at the angles,
where

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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. II.

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

Physical Description: Quarto.

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1 volume (297 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents that gives headings of chapters but does not provide the relevant page numbers.

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