Hence To Variaw, Twenty Coss, Is A
Goodly Country, Fertile, And Full Of Villages, Abounding In Wild Date
Trees, Which Are Usually Plentiful By The Sea-Side In Most Places, From
Which They Draw A Liquor Called Tarrie, Sure, Or Toddic, As Also
From A Wild Cocoa-Tree Called Tarrie.
Hence to Surat is three coss,
being the close of the itinerary of Nicolas Ufflet.
The city of Agra has not been in repute above 50 years,[259] having only
been a village till the reign of Akbar, who removed his residence to
this place from Futtipoor, as already mentioned, for want of good water.
It is now a large city, and populous beyond measure, so that it is very
difficult to pass through the streets, which are mostly narrow and
dirty, save only the great Bazar and a few others, which are large and
handsome. The city is somewhat in the form of a crescent, on the
convexity of a bend of the Jumna, being about five coss in length on the
land side, and as much along the banks of the river, on which are many
goodly houses of the nobles, overlooking the Jumna, which runs with a
swift current from N.W. to S.E. to join the Ganges. On the banks of the
river stands the castle, one of the fairest and most admirable buildings
in all the East, some three or four miles in circuit, inclosed by a fine
and strong wall of squared stones, around which is a fair ditch with
draw-bridges.
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