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and nineteen miles from Calcutta. This place, made famous by the poets of Hin- deaten, whence ia the @ays of ils eplendor issued the devaststing armiea of the Moguls. contains on its site the ruies of ten cities of ths same name, bavisg been captured, sacked, destroyed and rebuilt no le3s than eleven times, net siways upon the sama ex- act apot, bub extendisg overansrea of about forty equare miles. This chenge of lcestion ‘was csused sotuetimes by the total destruc- tion of the old towas, sometimes by a change in the bed of the river, and sometimes from the ambition of an Emperor who wished to build a meresplendid renidence. For wher- ever the King built bis fortified palace, the nobles flicked aragnd, and the people soon followed for the protection ef the King’s soldiers seninst the robber tribes.
Modern Delhi was built about two hun: dred years seo by the Emperor Shah-Jeban, asd ig exciosed ty a turreted wall five and a half miles in circnit, aud is approached through twelve strongly fortified entrances, the prireipal of whieh are known as the Cashmere, Delhi, Lahore und Calcutta gates.
We arrived in Dethi Iste in the eyeing, and bad the chaics of the only two places where strangers cau he accommodated, the Dak Bangelow (or goverpment csrayar- syral,) and the “United Service Hotel.” We chose the isiter, which was under the Wsnegement ef a native Besgalese, whose mame eporeximated in gouad, *Rarrabbag,”? He proved to he a “thief aud a robber,” ard Ris uame was appropriste, for a more ua - mitigated seamp I did not meet in Indiz. Smooth aa ail in epeeeh, erivging and fawn- ing in manter, ke watched over us as birds fer hia especial pluckivg, Keeping every- body away except those who would pay the highest commizsion on our purchases, and eosxing silver rispecs out of us which he pretended to pay as buchkshecsh at the ecve eval plagos we visited, but coolly pocketed, giving only copper pies; end at last pre- senting a bill that was perfetly stunning. In fine, “we were strangers and ha took us in.”
Ovy first visit on the rmorning afier our arrival was to the citedcl, within which was the paleca of the Emperor, It is enclosed bp a bigh wall of red granite, the fourth side, which faces the river, being the wall of the city. The Palace and Hall of Audience, though now shorn of their grandeur and partly in ruins, attest the lav-
