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its former extent from the fact that a part of " the residence with the thousand doors."

formed of

was known as

it

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Gardens in Ajodhya (26.) The Haydt Bakhsh and Farhat Balchsh. were formerly fine royal gardens. The former is assigned for life to the distinguished Pandit Umadatt, the latter is held in part by the R£ja of Dumraon (who has made it into a fine garden), and in part by the abbots of the Digambari Akhara, to whom it was made over in part compensation for the Guptar Park. (27.)

road.

—Situated on the lady was the The tomb of Banni KhAnam.—

The

side of the Dilkusha

Bahti, BegarrCs mosque.

wife of Anjum^This (28,) ud-daula, brother of the Bahti Begam, and the tomb was built by Almas Ali Khan. It is now in the occupation of the Church Mission. (29.)

The buildings of

Muhammad

Taqi and Mirza Haidar.

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Relatives of the Bahu Begam, whose heirs are still pensioners on her fund. These buildings are east of the chauk they are let out to Government ofiicials, but are now rapidly going to decay.

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The Id (30.) The mosque and imdmbdra of Jawdkir Ali Khcm. prayers of the Shias are offered in this mosque, and in the imambara tdzias are annually set up ; but, strange to say, they are in the hands of a Hindu, Babu Bachhu Singh, the grand-nephew of Darab Ali Khan, mentioned above under No. 23. The babu is a well-to-do citizen of Fyzabad.

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The Tnosque and the tomb of Tdq-Ab Ali Khan in Muhalla Atal These buildings were constructed in accordance with the will of Yaqub Ali, a eunuch of Shuja-ud-daula's harem, by his brother Yusuf Ali. (31).

Khan.

They

contain a fine specimen of stone fretwork. possession of a member of the family, Muhammad

They are stiU Nasim Khan.

in the

G. GANGES.

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As this river only borders the province, the briefest account may here be given. It is smaller than either the Sarda or Kauriala, its coldweather discharge being only 3,500 cubic feet at the Cawnpore bridge. It forms the boundary between Oudh and the North-Western^ Provinces for about 195 miles. Its level is about 392 feet above the sea when it first touches on the former province ; it is 270 feet when it leaves it falls therefore 122 feet, or about two-thirds of a foot per mile.

It is bridged at Cawnpore by the railway bridge opened in 1875. The water-spans of this latter erection are twenty-five in number they are 2,750 feet in length the height from low-water level to the bottom of the girders is 32 feet ; the piers are sunk to a level of 65 feet below low-water level the cost was Rs. 19,40,000. The north-east or Oudh bank of the river is distant from two to four miles from the dry-weather channel, the intervening land being flooded every rains. The lowest level of the river at Cawnpore is 360 feet above the sea, that of highest flood is 376 feet.