On
This Side, The City Of Surat Is Open To The Green, But Is Fenced On All
Other Sides By A Ditch And Thick Hedges, Having Three Gates, One Of
Which Leads To Variaw, A Small Village At The Ford Of The Taptee
Leading To Cambay.
Near this village on the left hand is a small
aldea, pleasantly situated on the bank of the river, where is a great
pagoda much resorted to by the Indians.
A second gate leads to
Boorbanpoor; and a third to Nonsary,[232] a town ten coss from Surat,
where much calico is manufactured, standing near a fine stream or small
river. About ten coss farther in the same direction is Gondoree,
[Gundavee,] and a little further Belsaca, [Bulsaur,] the frontier town
towards Damaun. Just without Nunsary gate is a handsome tank of
sixteen sides, surrounded on all sides by stone steps, three quarters
of an English mile in circuit, and having a small house in the middle.
On the farther side of this tank are several fine tombs with a handsome
paved court, behind which is a small grove of Mango trees, to which the
citizens resort to banquet. About half a coss beyond this, is a great
tree much venerated by the Banians, who alledge that it is under the
protection of a dew, or guardian spirit, and that although often cut
down and grubbed up from the roots by order of the Moors, it has yet
constantly sprung up again.
[Footnote 230:
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