The Last
Of This Race Was Rase Pethory; Who, After Seven Times Taking A Patan
King, Was At Last By Him Taken And Slain.
He began the Patan kingdom of
Delhi.
The Patans came from the mountains between Candahar and Cabul.
The second Delhi was built by Togall Shah, a Patan king. The third
was of little note. The fourth by Sher-shah-selim, and in it is the
tomb of Humaion. - Purchas.]
[Footnote 248: Purchas alleges that these inscriptions are in Greek and
Hebrew and that some affirm it was erected by Alexander the Great - E.]
It is remarkable, that the quarries of India, and especially those near
Futtipoor, are of such a nature that the rock may be cleft like logs,
and sawn like planks of great length and breadth, so as to form the
ceilings of rooms and the roofs of houses. From this monument, which is
two coss from Delhi, there is said to be a subterraneous passage all the
way to Delhi castle. This place is now all in ruins, and abounds in
deer. From Delhi, in nine stages, I reached Sirinam, or Sirhind, where
is a fair tank with a pleasure-house in the middle, to which leads a
stone bridge of fifteen arches. From thence is a canal to a royal
garden, at the distance of a coss, with a paved road forty feet broad,
overshaded by trees on both sides. This garden is square, each side a
coss or more in length, enclosed with a brick wall, richly planted with
all kinds of fruits and flowers, and was rented, as I was told, at
40,000 rupees.
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