Storia do Mogor 227: Illavas (Allahabad).

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At the capital of this province no cloth is made; nothing but dishes of different colours, and not very durable. At the town of Benares and others dependent upon it are made many stuffs of silk, cloth of gold and of silver, turbans, waist-belts, and goods suited to women's use. Eight thousand horsemen are kept there, most of whom are usually in the field, for the peasantry of this region are much inclined to rebellion. Many vegetables and cereals are grown here. The chief town lies at twenty-nine degrees twenty minutes of latitude, and one hundred and twenty-nine degrees fifteen minutes of longitude. In the first year of Aurangzeb's reign the water in the two rivers there (Allahabad) rose to such a height that almost the whole town was under water, and many people were drowned; the fortress alone escaped the inundation.