[8] An esteemed friend has since referred me to the second chapter of the prophet Joel, part of the seventh and eighth verses, as a better comparison. [_Author._] [9] The variety of locust seen in India is _acridium peregrinum_, which is said to range throughout the arid region from Algeria to N.W. India. They have extended as far south as the Kistna District of Madras (Watt, _Economic Dictionary_, VI, part i, 154). [10] _Tufan_, storm, _andhi_, darkness. [11] Earthquakes tend generally to be more frequent in the regions of extra-peninsular India, where the rocks have been more recently folded, than in the more stable Peninsula. Serious earthquakes have occurred recently in Assam, June, 1897, and in Kangra, Panjab, April, 1907. (_Imperial Gazetteer of India_, 1907, i. 98 f.) [12] Kanauj, in the Farrukhabad District, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. The ruin of the great city was due to attacks by Mahmud of Ghazni, A.D. 1019, and by Shihab-ud-din, Muhammad Ghori, in 1194. [13] _Garm dahani_, hot inflammation, prickly heat. [14] _Multani mitti_, 'Multan Earth', a soft, drab-coloured saponaceous earth, like fuller's earth, used in medicine and for cleansing the hair. [15] Cholera (_haiza_) was known to the Hindus long before the arrival of the Portuguese, who first described it (Yule, _Hobson-Jobson_[2], 586 ff.). The attention of English physicians was first seriously called to it in 1817, when it broke out in the Jessore District of Bengal, and in the camp of Marquess Hastings in the Datiya State, Central India. (See Sleeman, _Rambles_, 163, 232.) [16] _Zahr-mohra_, 'poison vanguard': the bezoar stone, believed to be an antidote to poison (Yule, _Hobson-Jobson_[2], 90 f.). [17] _Sikanjabin_, oxymel, vinegar, lime-juice, or other acid, mixed with sugar or honey. [18] _Loban_. LETTER XIX Kannoge.--Formerly the capital of Hindoostaun.--Ancient castle.--Durability of the bricks made by the aborigines.--Prospect from the Killaah (castle).--Ruins.--Treasures found therein.--The Durgah Baallee Peer Kee.--Mukhburrahs.--Ancient Mosque.--Singular structure of some stone pillars.--The Durgah Mukdoom Jhaunneer.--Conversions to the Mussulmaun Faith.--Anecdote.--Ignorance of the Hindoos.--Sculpture of the Ancients.--Mosque inhabited by thieves.--Discovery of Nitre.--Method of extracting it.--Conjectures of its produce.--Residence in the castle.--Reflections. Kannoge, now comparatively a Native village, situated about midway between Cawnpore and Futtyghur, is said to have been the capital of Hindoostaun, and according to Hindoo tradition was the seat of the reigning Rajahs two thousand years prior to the invasion of India by the Sultaun Timoor. If credit be given to current report, the Hindoos deny that the Deluge extended to India[1] as confidently as the Chinese declare that it never reached China.