text: ) The picturesque situation of the city of Azimabad or Patna [9] extending for several miles along the right bank of the Ganges with the villas and beautiful gardens of the resident English interspersed among the houses is described in terms of high admiration; and the mosques some of which were as old as the time of the Patan emperors are not forgotten by our Moslem traveller in his enumeration of the marvels of the city