vinces of that empire, to be inhumanly butchered in his camp! After these expeditions, he finished the conquest of the rest of Tartary, and had soon completed the extirpation of Khuslup Khan, (who reigned in Cashghur, and who was the last of his competitors in those parts,) when the slaughter of his ambassadors, by Sultan Mohammed of Khorasan, who possessed all the countries from the western boundaries of India to the Caspian Sea, afforded him a fair pretext for invading the Southern Asia. That region was then crowded with populous cities, abounding in riches, and sunk in luxury and effeminacy; and he came down upon it with a prodigious number of Moguls and Tartars, all inured from infancy to hardship, danger, and fatigue; equally strangers to the comforts and refined feelings of civilized life, and habitually exercised in war and bloodshed. He passed Turkistan in his way to the Khorasan Mountains, in 1218, when he was sixty-three years old; and, after effecting their entire reduction, he returned to Tartary, in 1223, where he died soon after. Jagy Khan was the eldest son of Chengez Khan. The present Khan of the Crimea is a descendant of Jagy Khan. Uzbek Khan was the seventh in succession from Jagy Khan. Hulaker Khan was the fifth son of Tutûg Khan, the fourth son of Chengez Khan. His elder brother Mungo Khan succeeded to the throne of his ancestors Korakorum in the Hedjira year 648, or A.D. 1250; and in consequence of complaints made to him of the state of Persia, and the adjacent countries, which his grandfather had subdued thirty years before, he sent his brother Hulaker, in 1253, with a chosen army of Moguls into these parts. His principle achievements on coming thither, were, the extirpation of the Mulahidu, called also Ismaelions, and Fedays, who had established themselves in Persia Irak; and the taking of Bagdad, which city he entered on the 9th of Safer A.H. 656, or A.D. 14th February 1258. He was the patron of the famous astronomer Nasir Ud-deen Toosy, for whom he built an observatory at Meraga, 'near Tauris, in Axirbajan, at which place the prince died in A.H. 663. CHRONOGRAM ON THE CONQUEST OF JAVA. I HAVE the pleasure to send you a Persian chronogram, which, from the nature of its subject, you may perhaps deem worthy of a place. The present tribute, humble indeed for so glorious an occasion, is the composition of a learned Native of Moorshedabad; and an Asiatic muse celebrating in her song a British triumph, is a circumstance, I think, not slightly deserving of praise and publicity. شد چواز حسن تردد فتج جادا شکار پرز شور تهنیت گردید ملک و کوه و دشت سال این است فتخ مسرت بخش گفت از من خرد از سر جرات بگو شاغل کرجاوه فتح گشت سرج "When the braVe onset open'D ConqVest's roVte, Lo! JaVa faLLs to gLory, VaLoVr's prize." To understand this fully it must be explained that not only lends its aid to form the above sense, but must also be taken in another more literal one, or for "the head or beginning of the word" of course the letter the numeで rical power of which, according to the rules of the being added to those of the letters which com will give the date جاده فتح كشف pose these words で required; — thus −3+3+1 1+,6+35+80+ 400+80+20+ 300+ 400=1220, year of 66 で the Hedjira, which corresponds with A.D. 1811. Shaghul" in the last line is the or poetical appellation of the composer. This in my translation I have omitted, for which, and for the very paraphrastick, incorrect version, I have above given, the only excuse I can offer is, that I was obliged to sacrifice much for another object which I had in view, namely, to transfuse into my lines not only the sense but the date of my original. The Roman numerical letters which they contain being added together, will give agreeably to chronogrammatic rules, the year 1811. TOMB OF SELIM KISHTEE. SIR,-Perhaps the following description of the tomb of Selim Kishtee, &c. may be acceptable to some of your readers, if you think it worthy of insertion in your Miscellany. On the 10th February, 1807, we visited Futtehpoor-Sicri, distant from Agra about twelve coss (or twenty-four miles.) At this place is the tomb of Selim Kishtee, the saint through whose prayers and intercessions Ackbar first obtained his wishes of an heir to his throne, his former children having died in early infancy. His eldest son, born at this place, was named after the holy man; in further gratitude to whom Ackbar erected the tomb above mentioned, about 241 years ago. The gateway was built nearly thirty years after. It stands on a stony eminence, and the ascent is by a steep flight of red granite steps. With the simplicity and unity of the design of this grand and noble structure we were highly pleased. It is formed of red granite, having borders and ornaments carved in stone of a pale ochre colour; there is also some inlaid work of white marble, but the subserviency of parts is so well preserved, that the effect produced by the whole is chaste and simple in a degree seldom witnessed in Indian architecture. From its summit, to which the ascent is by a flight of 117 steps, the eye commands an extensive prospect over a barren and sandy plain, but from whence some interesting spots are noticed: on one side, at the distance of eighteen coss are seen the hills of the Brima Pass: at a nearer extent of five coss, rise the walls and bastions of Bhurtpoor, rendered famous by its obstinate and successful resistance against five attempts to carry it by storm, by the British army, under Lord Lake, in the beginning of the year 1805. In an opposite direction, the white dome of the Taj Mah'l is descried above the horizon. Through this beautiful gateway, under a bold, and astonishingly elevated arch, the passage leads to a square and spacious area, paved with stone, round which, on the four sides, are arched cloisters of red granite, supported by pillars, richly carved, of the same stone, having small cells ranged within the walls. In the centre of the western side stands the Musjid. This building is in the same style and of the same materials as the gateway, but less elevated, and has a greater variety of beautiful borders, carved in stone. The corresponding building on the western side of the area, is a gateway; and a third, which stands on the same side as that in which are deposited the |