Storia do Mogor 100.2

100.2

I believe that the reader will be pleased to know that on the eastern side of this city is a fortress all of red stone; it was King Akbar who ordered it to be built; it is very handsome, and very strong. For, in addition to art, Nature also has helped to make it strong: the river Ganges, flowing on the north or left side, directs its course towards the south until it reaches the fortress, while the river Jamnah, flowing on the east, at the right hand of the fort, forms a junction with the Ganges River beneath the walls. Besides these rivers, there issues from the rock on which stand the fort and its outworks a petty stream with blue waters, which is called Tirt (Tirth); it goes by a straight course, like a tongue, between the two rivers until it flows into them. Just as if the said two rivers held those waters in respect, on account of their birthplace, they allow them to pass down for a long distance without their colour being modified. Thus you can plainly see the waters of this streamlet flowing in the middle of the waters of the two rivers, Ganges and Jamnah.