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 by the Baptist minister, conductors, clerks, and pensioners, nearly all of whom, with their wives and families, were killed. The Cantonment Gardens, on the right of the Rājghāt Gate road, were once covered by the "lines" of the Bengal Sappers and Miners; after their removal to Roorkee, about 1852, the huts were cleared away, and the camping-ground was here.

The road along the east of the gardens leads to a double-storied house, the residence, in 1857, of the Nawāb of Jhajjar. Close to his is a turning into the grounds of the Native Infantry Mess-house,once the residence of Shams-ud-din, Nawāb of Firozpur, and afterwards of one Ali Baksh Khān, who made a garden in the riverbed below. Between the mess-house and the road to the Khairāti Gate there is the mosque, called Zinat-ul-Masājid, the "Beauty among Mosques," built in 1710 by a daughter of Aurangzeb,who was buried in an adjoining tomb surrounded by a black-stone enclosure; she died in 1720.

Beyond the road to the Khairāti Gate is the Native Infantry Hospital, used for the same purpose in 1857, and guarded on the day of the outbreak by the Ride Company of the 38th Light Infantry. Next to this is a house. No. 5, the