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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER III
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It belongs to the family of Rajah Bukhtawar Sing.

The wall, thirty feet high, was built of the mud taken from the ditch, in which there is now some six or seven feet of water.

The wall has twenty-four bastions for guns, but there is no platform, or road for guns, round it on the inside.

A number of respectable merchants and tradesmen reside in this town, where they are better protected than in any other town in Oude.

It contains a population of between twenty and thirty thousand persons.


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