No. IX.
A MOSQUE, AT JUANPORE.
This Mosque is in a very singular, as well as ancient, style of building. The Minars are united by the lofty pointed arch, over which on the inside there is a terraced platform for the convenience of the crier to walk when engaged in calling the Mussulmen to prayers.
Juanpore is forty-two miles N. W. of Benares. It abounds in examples of the best style of Mahomedan architecture; has a fort of strong masonry, and a very good bridge over the river Goomty, which unites with the Ganges at Siedabad as before mentioned.
No. X.
GATE OF A MOSQUE, BUILT BY HAFEZ RAMUT, AT PILLIBEAT.
Hafez Ramut was a Rohilla chief of great respectability. He commanded the forces against Nawaub Sujah ul Dowla, who, assisted by the English, in April one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, defeated the Rohilias, at which time Hafez lost his life.
The Mosque to which this gate belongs, is a handsome edifice richly ornamented, and as well as this entrance carefully finished, much in the style of the modern buildings of the same class at Delhi.
Pillibeat is N. W. of Lucknow, about one hundred and fifty miles.
No. XI.
JAG DEO, AND WARRANGUR, HILL FORTS IN THE BARRAMAH'L.
Jag Deo, and Warrangur, are two of the twelve Hill Forts, or Barramah'l, which were in the possession of the late Sultaun Tippoo; these are of the lesser class, but, like most of the hill forts, are strongly fortified quite to their rocky summits. The approach to them being extremely difficult, they were considered as very strong situations; but were, nevertheless, given up to the English in one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, without resistance. These forts are distant from Kistnagherry, eastward, about seven miles.
No. XII.
RYACOTTA, IN THE BARRAMAH'L.
Ryacotta is one of the highest and strongest hill forts of the Barramah'l; it was taken in Earl Cornwallis's third campaign against the late Tippoo Sultaun in July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, by Major Gowdie, who soon carrying by assault the lower works which enclosed the Pettah; the Killedar, after a slight resistance, "gave up this lofty spacious fort, which ought to have yielded only to famine and a tedious blockade."[1]
No. XIII.
VERAPADROOG, IN THE BARRAMAH'L.
Verapadroog, with respect to its form and situation, is one of the most romantic forts of the Barramah'l. Its sides are very thickly clothed with wood a considerable way up, and the lower part is so surrounded by an impenetrable jungle, that the tigers, which are said to be very numerous here, find a secure and undisturbed shelter. It is distant from Ryacotta eleven miles.
