1 TOPOGRAPHY OF THE PUNJAUB. O
2 The bazaars are spacious, and the town boasts of
3 a few manufactories, a canal from the Ilavee, a
4 mint, and some places of public worship. But
5 the most striking edifice, upreared by Runjeet
6 Singh, is the lofty fortress of Govindghur, which
7 formerly held all the wealth of the government
8 for the time being.
9 MooLTAN, the third town in order of import-
10 ance^ stands upon a mound three miles east of
11 the river Chenab. In form it is an irregular
12 sexagon, with its longest side, which measures
13 six hundred yards, to the north-west. Its modern
14 consequence arises fi'om the great extent of com-
15 merce of which it is the seat, the banking trans-
16 actions particularly giving it a pre-eminence over
17 all other towns in Western India. Although
18 within its own walls, which are forty feet in
19 height seen from without, but few buildings of
20 any importance are contained, the neighbourhood
21 is crowded with the debris of mosques, tombs,
22 serais, &c., attesting the ancient grandeur of the
23 place.
24 VuzEERABAD likewise stands to the east of the
25 Chenab, but two or three hundred miles higher
26 up than the town previously mentioned. In
27 point of architecture, Vuzeerabad may take pre-
28 cedence of any other town in the Punjaub. This
29 is owing to the exertions of General Avitabile, an
30 European officer, lately in the service of the