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Creighton, Henry
The ruins of Gour: described, and represented in eighteen views — London, 1817

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44 The ramparts of the fort are exceedingly high, and there
44 seems to have been brick buildings on the top of them, though
44 at present there are scarce any remains of them above ground.
44 There are yet some standing walls, between thirty and forty
44 feet high; but the whole place is covered with trees and
44 brambles, so thick, as to be totally impassable in many
44 places; and there are so many tigers and wild hogs, as to
44 make it dangerous to go among the ruins. The place too
44 is infested with large black muscatoes, which are totally
44 different from the common ones, and infinitely more
44 troublesome. Gour was probably near the Palibothra of
44 the ancients.

44 A great part of the city of Gour is situated close on
44 the banks of a rivulet, called the Bh&girati, the estimated
44 breadth of which is from forty to ninety-five yards ; but
44 the Ganges sometimes advances so near as to obliterate a
44 part of this rivulet in its course.” (See Map.)

Major Pennell, in his Memoirs of a map of Hindostan,
page 55, London, 1788, in speaking of Gour, says as follows :
44 Gour9 called also Lucknouti, the ancient capital of Ben-
44 gal, and supposed to be the Gangia regia of Ptolemy,
44 stood on the left bank of the Ganges, about twenty-five
44 miles below Bajemal (latitude 24° 53', longitude 88° 14/).
44 It was the capital of Bengal 730 years before Christ

44 (Dow,
 
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