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Shahjahanabad straight at the guns,although formed in square,the wild British cheer,the bayonetting of the gunners,and the pursuit to the walls of the sarai,within which many a Sepoy fell. GARDEN OF MAHALDAR KHAN. — The Grand Trunk Road,on the way to Delhi from Badli-ki-Sarai,passes through a triple gateway,and just avoids another gate a few hundred yards distant.Between these two gates there used to be a bazar, and the gates were built by one Mahaldar Khan, in the reign of Mahomed Shah, about A.D.1728. The garden of this noble is close by,and is one of the numerous ones which line the road, on either side, right up to the Sabzimandi. ROSHANARA GARDEN. — A cross-road,from near a flour-mill, built on the site of the Sabzimandi Piquet,leads to the pleasant gardens laid out by the Sirhindi Begam,wife of Shah Jahan,and by Roshanara Begam, favourite sister of Aurangzeb. The latter is buried in the summer- house;she died in 1663. MITHAI BRIDGE. — The origin of this name,which is given to the bridge over the canal nearest to the Cabul Gate,is uncertain,but we find it mentioned in the account of the massacre of Nadir Shah, long before the British occupation. 169