Grand moving diorama of Hindostan, from Fort William, Bengal, to Gangoutri in the Himalaya . steamers from Calcutta take in their coal a mile below, and therefore do notdestroy the beauty of the old ruins with their smoke, and noise, and Birmingham Eajmahal hills are distant about five miles inland. Sooraj-oo-Dowlah, after his flight from Plassey, reached Eajmahal, and took shelter inthe buildings of a deserted garden, where he was discovered by a Fakir named Dana Shah,whose nose and ears he had ordered to be cut off thirteen months before. This manrecognized him, made the circu
Grand moving diorama of Hindostan, from Fort William, Bengal, to Gangoutri in the Himalaya . steamers from Calcutta take in their coal a mile below, and therefore do notdestroy the beauty of the old ruins with their smoke, and noise, and Birmingham Eajmahal hills are distant about five miles inland. Sooraj-oo-Dowlah, after his flight from Plassey, reached Eajmahal, and took shelter inthe buildings of a deserted garden, where he was discovered by a Fakir named Dana Shah,whose nose and ears he had ordered to be cut off thirteen months before. This manrecognized him, made the circumstance known, and the Nawab was carried a prisoner back toMoorshedabad, where he was murdered by order of Meerun, the son of the new Nawab MeerJaflier Khan. His mangled remains were placed on an elephant, exposed throughout the city,and finally interred. Thus perished Sooraj-oo-Dowlah, in the twentieth year of his age, andthe fifteenth month of his reign; a prince whose short career was connected in a mostimportant manner with the British interests in India, both for good and evil. b 4. SICKEI-GALL A country vessel is being towed by her crew round a rocky point; each man has his own gun,or track-rope, fastened to a short, thick piece of bamboo, which he carries over his Pinnace, or budjerow, tracks, with ten or twelve men, upon one rope only. The Sickri-gali pass, during the Hindu and Muhammadan Governments, was the com-manding entrance from Bahar into Bengal, and was fortified with a strong wall; however, in1742, a Mahratta army of cavalry passed into Bengal through the hills above Colgong. Thevillage of Sickri-gali is eighteen miles above Bajmahal at the base of a high rocky eminence,commanding a fine view of two ranges of hills. There is here the tomb of a celebratedMuhammadan Saint, Pir Pointi, and a cave in limestone rock ; and higher up, at a placecalled Pir Pointi, now a mass of ruins, is another tomb of the saint. sFcKRI-OALf—THE ItAJMAHAL HILLS. S3 This p
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