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 our batteries, is almost in a line with the minarets of a mosque, far away in Dariaganj. The trees have now grown up, although not sufficiently to hide the bastion, but in 1857 there were very few trees to hide the walls from view, and very few houses in the civil lines, where now there are many.

The nearest of some tall chimneys to the right marks a sarai, constantly occupied by the enemy, in the suburb of Kishanganj ; the Sabzimandi suburb extends from some malt-houses^ with queer tops, to some high mill buildings behind the Ridge. Between the two suburbs run the rail- ways, and the canal of Ali Mardan Khan, made in the reign of Shah Jahan, and called the "Canal of Paradise ;" it was cleared and straightened and reopened in 1820. Beyond Kishanganj is the now populous suburb of the Sadr Bazar, in 1857 a collection of mean hovels, and called Paharipur ; behind this suburb an old Idgah, a place of worship on Mahomedan festivals, crowns a hill which is the continuation of the Ridee. Beyond a bridge over the canal, and to the right of the road leading down off the Ridge, is a monument to those of the ist European Bengal Fusiliers, who fell in attacks made on Kishanganj.

Particular notice should be taken of a mass of gardens in the Sabzimandi, among which are