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 368 LUC tion, as it stands before us in the present day, falls at all short of the large and liberal stipulations of the mouarch. The building is as solid as it is graceful, built from very deep foundations, and no wood-work is used throughout. Asif-ud-daula, at his death, was buried in it. The Residency, standing on a considerable elevation about three hundred yards from the bank of the Gumti, was another of the works completed by this sovereign. The Residency is far too famous a place, and too generally known to require a very detailed description. When Asif-ud-daula resided in his palace, the Daulatkhána, the Resident was accommodated in one of the buildings attached to it; but when Saádat Ali made the Farhat Bakhsh his own dwelling place, he built the Residency close to it. At first no military guard was attached to the Resident, but when Colonel Bailey held this office, a guard of honour was appointed, and a house built for it by Saádat Ali close to the gate of the Presidency enclosure, which thus obtained its world-famous name of the Bailey-guard gate. The plans and descriptions given in Mr. Gubbins' and other books are very full and complete. Outside the city and across the river is to be found the palace of Bibiápur ; it was built by Nawab Asif-ud-daula as a country residence, in which to enjoy hunting and other sports. When a change of residents took place, the new resident on his first arrival used to take up his abode kere. The next day the Nawab Wazír came to meet him with a proces- sion, and conducted him to the Residency, riding with him on one elephant. When it was decided to depose Wazír Ali Khan, the adopted son of Asif- ud-daula, in favour of Saáďat Ali Khan, it was in this place, according to native report, that the Governor-General Lord Teignmouth held a great darbár of all the Lucknow court, and informed Wazír Ali of the order for his deposition, and from thence he sent hits off to Benares, which was tlie place fixed on as his residence. The country houses at Chinhat, also the garden pavilions at Aish Bágh and Chár Bágh (the latter now occupied by the railway station), were built by Asif-ud-daula, as were also the Yahiáganj and stables annexed. The Wazirganj that gives its name to the present police thána, which he founded in the name of his adopted son Wazír Ali Khan Amániganj, Fatehganj, Rakabganj, the Nakhkhás, Daulatganj, Begam. ganj, and Nawabganj, these are ali situated in the Wazirganj and chauk thánas. Other Ganjes founded in his time were- The Aháta Khánsámán, built by the king's chamberlain, who on its com- pletion invited the Nawab to an entertainment in it. The Takaitganj and the Bazár Takait Ráe, which are both in the chauk, built by the king's prime minister Mahárája Tikait Ráe. The T'irmaniganj. The Tikri. The Chhaoni Hasan-ud-dín Khan. The Hasanganj Báoli. The Bhawaniganj,