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Raj Ghaut and the Fort of Allahabad, at the Confluence of the Great Rivers
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This is plate 17 from Charles Ramus Forrest's 'A
Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India'.
Forrest was an East India Company official who made excursions
along the rivers, producing drawings "attentively copied from
nature, and in many instances coloured on the spot, ... while the
magic effects of the scenes represented were still impressed on
[his] mental vision".In December1807 he set out from Calcutta with
a British diplomatic legation along the Ganges. Having passed
Benares, they moved on to Ahmedabad, which was "situated at the
immediate confluence of the two great rivers, Ganges and Jumna,
which here mingle their mighty bulk of waters. The fortress is
nearly triangular in shape ... It was built by the great Acber, and
was long the residence of that renowned warrior and statesman ...
The point of junction of the two rivers ... is a great resort of
pilgrims, who come in vast crowds from the most remote parts of
India to bathe in the sacred waters, and purify themselves from
wordly sins."
Title: Raj Ghaut and the Fort of Allahabad, at the Confluence of
the Great Rivers
Description:
This is plate 17 from Charles Ramus Forrest's 'A
Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India'.
Forrest was an East India Company official who made excursions
along the rivers, producing drawings "attentively copied from
nature, and in many instances coloured on the spot, .
while the
magic effects of the scenes represented were still impressed on
[his] mental vision".
In December1807 he set out from Calcutta with
a British diplomatic legation along the Ganges.
Having passed
Benares, they moved on to Ahmedabad, which was "situated at the
immediate confluence of the two great rivers, Ganges and Jumna,
which here mingle their mighty bulk of waters.
The fortress is
nearly triangular in shape .
It was built by the great Acber, and
was long the residence of that renowned warrior and statesman .
The point of junction of the two rivers .
is a great resort of
pilgrims, who come in vast crowds from the most remote parts of
India to bathe in the sacred waters, and purify themselves from
wordly sins.
".
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