CHAPTER XII.

Allahabad--Pilgrimages--The River Jumna--Hurdwar--Akbar--Allum II.--Fortifications--Inscriptions on Column--Military Depôt --Lieut.-Colonel A. Abbott, C.B.--Colonel Kyd discovers a Cave--Ancient Palibothra--Arrian's Account--Megasthenes--Dr. Adams--Heeren--Chundragupta--Patna--The Sacred Rivers--Bhaugulpore --The Mandara Hill--The Chundun--Palibothra--Rajmahal--Antiquity of Kanoge--Allahabad--Extent of Asiatic Cities--Mahomedan Invasion--Extent of Hindoostan. 300