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 rosewater, into which it is to be broken; and in this state of solution it is sufficient to impregnate with its flavour a m[)u]n of tobacco. This receipt was procured from one of the attendants on her Highness the Bāiza Bā'ī.

No. XXXI.—Authorities quoted in the Work.—Vol. ii. p. 181.

"Moor's Hindū Pantheon;" "Ward, On the Religion, &c., of the Hindoos;" "Wilford's Dissertation on Egypt and the Nile;" "Asiatic Researches;" "Maurice's Indian Antiquities;" "Frazer's Tour through the Himalaya Mountains;" "Capt. J. A. Hodgson's Survey of the Ganges and Jumna;" "Adam's Roman Antiquities;" "Mishcat ul Masabih;" "Dow's History of Hindostan;" "Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajah'stan," and "Travels in Western India;" " Herklot's Qunoon-e-islam;" "Franklin's Shah Alum," and "Life of George Thomas;" "The Ku'rān;" "Ainslie's Materia Medica;" "Louden's Encyclopedia of Plants."

No. XXXII.—Extracts from "The History of Delhie, and adjacent Ruins;" a manuscript, by Colonel Franklin.—Vol. ii. p. 222.

"The tomb of Imām Mirmaun is a lofty building of red granite, close to the Kutb Minar. This saint is said to have lived in the reign of Altumush."

"The mausoleum of the monarch Altumush is about four hundred yards south-west of the Kutb Minar. The walls are of granite, the tomb of plain marble, and there is no dome to the building."

"Near this is an octagonal building, the tomb of Adam Khan, a Pathan nobleman, who was high in the confidence of Altumush."

"The tomb of the saint Kutb-u-Dīn is of white marble, and a fine mosque of red granite adjoins it. The court of the mosque contains the tombs of the Emperor Bahadur Shah, who died in 1707, and the Emperor Alum Shah, deceased 1807; and also that of the last Emperor, Akbar Shah."

"Connected with these tombs is a small marble mosque, built by Aurangzēb, the father of Bahadur Shah. The marble enclosure where the body of saint Kutb reposes was built by Ferocksher, who was assassinated by the Syuds of Burrah, in 1713. Zabtah Khan, father of the infamous Gholam Khadir Ali Bahadur, and a number of other nobles, with many of the royal family, are interred in the area. It is reported that three hundred thousand martyrs to the Muhammadan faith are buried in this vicinity; in the number must be included those who fell in the eight battles fought with Rājā Pittourah, by Kutb-u-Dīn Abeck."