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

CHAPTER V
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The inhabitants live so far from each other, and are separated by such heaps of ruins and deep water-courses, that they can make no resistance.

The high walls and buildings, all of burnt brick, erected in the time of Shahjehan, are all gone to ruin.

The plain, around the town, is open, level, well cultivated, and beautifully studded with trees.

There is a fine tank of puckah masonry to the north-west of the town, built by the same Reotee Ram, and repaired by some member of his family, who holds and keeps in good order the pretty garden around it.

The best place for a cantonment, courts, &c., is the plain which separates the town from the river Saee to the south-east: they should extend along from the town to the bridge over the Saee river.


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