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2 Sugar manufactory, at Cashmere. It is headed with the signature of
3 Maharajh Gholab Sing v. page 177.
4 Plate XIV. Copy of an Order, issued by the late Sikh-government,
5 to the author of this work, to receive and entertain as Guests, the
6 eighteen English prisoners taken at Aliwal, and forwarded from Philoor,
7 by Runjoor Sing. This Order, also, is headed with the Signature of
8 Gholab Sing, who, in the absence of Lall Sing, was then temporary
9 Vizier of the State of Lahore v. page 122.
10 The reason for presenting these Copies to the public, is as follows — In
11 the course of last year, I was informed by the Chief Director of the
12 Imperial Government Printing Office at Vienna, that there were 500
13 different species of native, and 104 foreign types, in that establishment ;
14 among which I observed the Goormukee characters of the Sikhs, men-
15 tioned in the explanation of Plate XII : yet, amid that vast collection,
16 the character of the signature of Maharajh Gholab Sing, as exhibited on
17 this and the preceding document, is not to be found — a curiosity
18 worthy of observation — and, at the request of the Director of that famous
19 establishment, the writer hereof has undertaken, on his return to the
20 East, to furnish that hitherto unknown character in Europe, to the Im-
21 perial Printing Office, after having ascertained the reality of the existence
22 of such a Character, and that it is not merely a Monogram belonging
23 to this family of the Rajahs of the Hills.
24 In a corner of this Plate, is added a similar Signature of the late
25 Rajah Heera Sing, nephew of Gholab Sing.
26 Plate XV. Northern view of the Fortress of the city of Lahore.
27 This quadrangular stone-built Fortress, having two Entrances, is in a
28 state of tolerable preservation, though erected by the Mohamedans, 200
29 years ago, and occupies the nort-west angle of the city. It has an im-
30 posing appearance, and is decorated with a variety of different colored
31 stones, too minute to be represented on a Plate.
32 No. 1 and 2, on the Plate, indicate the inner and outer gates of the
33 city, called Musthee Durwaza ; between which gates, some houses of
34 the city may be descried.
35 No. 3 is a Turmsala — Indian House-of -prayer.
36 No. 4 is the eastern Entrance from the city to the Fortress.
37 No. 5 is the large Court yard ; on the north of which is the Takht
38 (place of coronation) and before it is the Khahgha (formerly the cool
39 place of repose, during the heat of the day) the front of which, as seen