1 Sugar manufactory, at CaslnneiV It. is headed with the signature of
2 Mahore jit Gholai) Sing./.page 177.
3 I't.aik XTY. Copy nf avi Order, issued by th« Into Sikh-govc 'nment,
4 to the author of tliis work, t<■ receive and entertain us Guests, the
5 eighteen English prisoners taken at Aliwel, nud forwainlod from FhilOCv,
6 by Kunjoor Sing. Thin Order, also, is. headed with the Signature of
7 Gholab Sing, who. in the absence of tail Sing, woe then temporary
8 Vizier of the State of Lahore . v, page JSU.
9 The reason for presenting these Copies to the public, is (u» follows—in
10 the course of last year, f was informed by the Chief Director of the
11 Imperial Government Printing Office at Vienna, that there were 500
12 different species of native, and lOf foreign types, in that establishment;
13 among which I observed the Goormulo o characters of the Sikhs, men¬
14 tioned in the explanation of Plato XII; yet, amid tlmt vast collection,
15 the character of the signature of Muh&rajh Gholab Sing, as exhibited u n
16 this and the preceding document, is not to be found—a curiosity
17 worthy of observation—and, at the request of the Director of that famous
18 establishment, the writer hereof baa undertaken, or, his return to tho
19 East, to furnish that hitherto unknown character in Europe, to the Tor
20 penal Printing Office, after having ascertained the reality of the existence
21 of such a Character, and that it is not merely a Monogram belonging
22 to this family of the ihy.ahs of tho Hills.
23 In a corner of this Plato, is added-# similar Signature of the late
24 Rajn'i Heevtt Sing, nephew ot Gholub Sing.
25 Pi ate XV. Northern view of the Fortress of the city of Lahore.
26 This quadraugular stone-built Fortress, having two Entrances, is in a
27 state of tolerable preservation, though erected by the Molmnicdans 200
28 y ars ago, and occupies the nort-wost angle of the city. It has an im¬
29 posing appearance, and is decorated with a variety of different, colored
30 sunies. too minute ro bo represented on a Pinto.
31 No. 1 and 2, on the Plato, indicate the inner and outer gates of the
32 city, called Mvethee Durwaza ; between which gates, some houses of
33 t.be city may be descried.
34 No. f> I., a Turmsala— Indian Monte-of-proper.
35 N’o. i-i is the eastern Entrance from the city to tin Fortress.
36 No. 6 is the large Court yard; on the north of which is the Tahht
37 (pl»c* of coronation! and before it is tho Khohgho (formerly the cool'
38 ■liner, of repose, during the heat of the day) the ft ,nt of which, as seen