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The 10th we went ten coss from Delhi to _Bunira_. The 11th to _Cullvower_, twelve coss. The 12th to _Pampette_, [Paniput,] twelve coss. This is a small handsome city, where they manufacture various sorts of girdles and sashes, and great quantities of cotton-cloth, and have abundance of handicrafts. The 13th to _Carnanl_, twelve coss. The 14th to _Tanisera_, [Tahnessir,] fourteen coss. The 15th to _Shavade_, [Shahabad,] ten coss. The 16th to _Mogol-Sera_, or _Gaugur_, fifteen coss. The 17th to _Sinan_,[146] fourteen coss, which is an ancient city, where they manufacture great store of cottons. The 18th to _Duratia_, fifteen coss. The 19th to _Pullower_, [Bullolepoor,] eleven coss. We this day passed in a boat over a great river called Sietmege[147] which is very broad, but full of shoals, and runs westward to join the Sinde, or Indus. The 20th we came to a small town called _Nicodar_, eleven coss. The 21st to _Sultanpoor_, an old town having a river which comes from the north, over which is a bridge of six arches. At this place great store of cotton goods are made. Four coss beyond this place we passed another small river. The 22d to _Chiurmul_,[148] eleven coss. We were this day boated across a river as broad as the Thames at Gravesend, called _Vian_, which runs westwards to join the Sinde. On its banks Allom Khan, ambassador from the Great Mogul to the king of Persia, had pitched his camp, which looked like a little city. The 23d we went to _Khan Khanum Serai_, seventeen coss, and the 24th we reached Lahore, seven coss. [Footnote 146: This is probably Sirhind, which is directly in the route, but so disguised in the text as to defy emendation.--E.] [Footnote 147: This is clearly the Sutuluge, or Setlege, called likewise the Beyah-Kussoor, and Chato dehr, being the easternmost of the Punjab or five rivers, which form the Indus. It was called Hesudrus by the ancients.--E.] [Footnote 148: From the river mentioned in the text as passed, on this day's journey, this may have been what is now called Gundwall, a little beyond the river Beyab, which is here 100 yards broad.--E.] All the country between Agra and Lahore is exceedingly well cultivated, being the best of India, and abounds in all things. It yields great store of powdered sugar, [raw sugar] the best being worth two 1/2 to two 3/4 rupees the great _maund_ of forty pounds. The whole road is planted on both sides with trees, most of which bear a species of mulbe
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