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1632] A JOURNEY FROM AGRA TO PUTTANA I 3/
This Eveninge wee returned to Puttana (3 course), and
fitted our selves for our departure thence.
From Agra hither wee find by the Calculation of our
perticuler Journies to bee but 253 Course, though usuallie
accompted 300, by reason of the extraordinary trouble and
hindrance there is in passing rivers in the waye.
Miles
253 Course from Agra to Puttana att ii Mile is 379J
8 Course from Puttana to Hadgeepore-Puttana
and back againe is 12
6 Course from Puttana to Bendrabun and back 9
2671 Course of India makes English miles- 400J
grove was probably that of Man Singh-ka-Bagh in the village of
Akbarpur, near the old junction of the Gandak and Ganges. See
ArchaeoL Survey Reports, vol. XVI. s.v. Hajipur.
1 Roe, ed. Foster, p. 541, makes the distance from Agra to
" Hbagipurpatna 300 courses, about 680 miles," a great exaggeration,
while Mundy's estimate is considerably less than the actual distance,
which is really, following the route he describes, about 550 miles.
- Here the copy in Harl. MS. 2286 adds—"Thus much since
our departure from Agra till our Arrival! in Puttana, and untill the
tyme that wee were ready to leave the same againe." Then, with no
break, the Hurl, copy goes on to a " Discription of Puttana," which
is part of Relation XI. in the Raw!. MS.
This Eveninge wee returned to Puttana (3 course), and
fitted our selves for our departure thence.
From Agra hither wee find by the Calculation of our
perticuler Journies to bee but 253 Course, though usuallie
accompted 300, by reason of the extraordinary trouble and
hindrance there is in passing rivers in the waye.
Miles
253 Course from Agra to Puttana att ii Mile is 379J
8 Course from Puttana to Hadgeepore-Puttana
and back againe is 12
6 Course from Puttana to Bendrabun and back 9
2671 Course of India makes English miles- 400J
grove was probably that of Man Singh-ka-Bagh in the village of
Akbarpur, near the old junction of the Gandak and Ganges. See
ArchaeoL Survey Reports, vol. XVI. s.v. Hajipur.
1 Roe, ed. Foster, p. 541, makes the distance from Agra to
" Hbagipurpatna 300 courses, about 680 miles," a great exaggeration,
while Mundy's estimate is considerably less than the actual distance,
which is really, following the route he describes, about 550 miles.
- Here the copy in Harl. MS. 2286 adds—"Thus much since
our departure from Agra till our Arrival! in Puttana, and untill the
tyme that wee were ready to leave the same againe." Then, with no
break, the Hurl, copy goes on to a " Discription of Puttana," which
is part of Relation XI. in the Raw!. MS.