Notes:
1. January, 1836.
2. A small town, thirty-six miles south of Delhi, situated in the
Gurgaon district, now included in the Panjab, but in the author's
time attached to the North-Western Provinces. The town is the chief
place in the 'pargana' of the same name.
3. Nineveh is not a well-chosen example, inasmuch as its decay was
due to deliberate destruction, and not to mere desertion by a
sovereign. It was deliberately burned and ruined by Nabopolassar,
viceroy of Babylon, and his allies, about 606 B.C. The decay of
Babylon was gradual. See note _post_, note 5.
4. Extract from a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, dated from
Ajmer, January 29, 1616. The words immediately following 'rubbish'
are 'His own [i.e. the King's] houses are of stone, handsome and
uniform. His great men build not, for want of inheritance; but, as
far as I have yet seen, live in tents, or in houses worse than our
cottages. Yet, when the King likes, as at Agra, because it is a city
erected by him, the buildings, as is reported, are fair and of carved
stone.' (Pinkerton's _Collection_, vol. viii, p.
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