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adorned with handſome porticos, from which you deſcend to convenient apartments occupied by the guards; On the eaſt, are the courts of juſtice; on the well, the apartments of the ladies; and in the middle, an elegant canal formed with vaſt judgment and art, into baſins. From the firſt court is a grand avenue leading to the ſecond, where the Omrahs or Nobles mount guard in perſon, and deem it a particular honour to wait on the preſent Mogul, Ahamut Shaw Baudshaw.

The next object that preſents it ſelf in the View, is the Divan, which is held in the third court, where the Emperor give public audience. It

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