1 ROW—RUH. 161
2 which the fort stands. The western face of the plateau is washed
3 by the small river Gham running at its base. Its works are of
4 immense strength, consisting of massive walls of stone’ thirty feet
5 thick, cemented with mortar, and strengthened with bastions, all
6 crenated throughout, and provided with a double row of loopholes.
7 Connected with the fortress is an immense well, lined with masonry,
8 and having passages down to the water sd numerous that from fifty
9 to a hundred persons may draw water at once.? soe ae
10 The present fortress was built about the year 1540, by aid
11 Sheher Shah,? the Patan Emperor of Dehly, who had driven * Price, Mahome-
12 Humaioon into exile, and he is said to have expended a million Leveson
13 and a half sterling in its construction. When Humaioon re-
14 turned, at the head of an army, to reclaim his empire, the fortress
15 Was given up to him without resistance. He demolished the
16 palace raised within the fort by his rival and enemy, but found
17 the massive defences too strong for the limited time and means
18 which he could allow for their destruction. The fortress is at
19 present in a ruinous state, and in one place a huge mass of the
20 Wall has tumbled down the precipice, and rendered the interior
21 accessible. It is considered by military men indefensible against
22 modern modes of attack.4 Lat. 33° 2’, long. 73° 29’. ‘ Hough, 344.
23 ROW, in Sinde, a village situate on one of the mouths of the E.1.c. Ms. Doc.
24 river Indus, in lat. 24° 35’, long. 67° 18’.
25 ROZAN, in Sinde, a village situate on the route from Sukkur Ms. Surrey Map.
26 to Mittun Kote, and forty miles south-west of the latter town.
27 Lat. 28° 39’, long. 69° 57’.
28 ROZEH, in Afghanistan, a beautiful village, two miles north- E.I.C. Ms. Doc,
29 east of Ghuznee, on the route to Kabool. It is celebrated as the
30 burial-place of the renowned Mahmud of Ghuznee. (See Guvz-
31 Nex.) Its name, signifying ‘garden,”* has probably been bestowed
32 with reference to its pleasant site.
33 ROZEH-BAGH, in Western Afghanistan, a royal garden E.1.C. Ms. Doe.
34 planted with fir-trees of great size and beauty. It lies on the
35 route from Herat to Kandahar, and is seven miles south of the
36 former town. Lat. 34° 18’, long. 62° 10’.
37 ROZUR.—See Rozzz.
38 RUHUL, in the Punjab, a village situate ‘fifteen miles from E.1,C. Ms. Doc.
39 the right bank of the river Ghara. Lat. 30° 53’, long. 74° 5’.
40 * ddyy.
41 VOL. II. M