By The Side
Of Which Stands A High Tower Of 170 Steps In Height, Built Round With
Windows And Galleries To Each Room, With Many Fine Arches And Pillars,
The Walls Being All Inlaid In A Most Beautiful Manner With Green Marble
Or Some Other Rich Stone.
On the north side, where we came forth from
this city; there lay a cannon, the bore of which was eighteen inches
diameter.
The gate is very strong, having six others within, all very
strong, with large walled courts of guard between gate and gate. All
along the side of the mountains runs a strong wall, with turrets or
flankers at intervals, although the hill is so steep in itself that it
is hardly possible for a man to creep upon all fours in any part of it,
so that it appears absolutely impregnable; yet was taken, partly by
force and partly by treason, by Humaion, grandfather of the present
Great Mogul, from Sheic Shah Selim, whose ancestors conquered it from
the Indians about 400 years ago. This Shah Selim was a powerful King of
Delhi, who once forced Humaion to flee into Persia for aid; and,
returning from Persia, put Selim to the worst, yet was unable to conquer
him. He even held out during the whole reign of Akbar, keeping upon the
mountains. Beyond the walls, the suburbs formerly extended four coss to
the north, but are now all in ruins, except a few tombs, mosques, and
goodly serais, in which no persons now dwell.
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