CANOUGE, or CANOGE) a town of Hindostan, situat ed about two miles from the hanks of the Ganges, and supposed to be the Palibothra of the ancients, from the extent, magnificence, and grandeur, which are ascribed to it in the Indian histories. Its walls are said to have been 100 miles in circumference ; and, in the sixth cen tury, it is supposed to have contained 30,000 shops in which betel nut was sold, 60,000 bands of musicians, and 3000 jewellers.
Thei e is now only one single street remaining in Canouge, and even this is no indication of the former greatness of the place. A canal, which has been cut from the Gauges, makes a bend towards the town, and brings the \vat( r close to the citadel, which is placed upon a steep eminence. No ',lidding of any importance now remains, and the brick walls, which do not seem tc, be very ancient, are hastening to decay. Tvvo mau soleums, of the same magnitude, and of In.ndsoinc architecture, are erected to two mussulman saints, on an eminence covered with trees, from which there is a fine kw of the plain, covered with ruined ft Inples and tombs. " Tamarind trees, and mango topes," s:tys Lord Valentia, " were scattered every where ; and the whit ened tomb of an English officer, who was drowned here, raised its pointed head above this scene of desolation.
On the inside of the tomb were inscribed several names and dates, with quotations not unappropriate. We next visited another tomb on the most lofty point. It con sists of a quadrangle and mosque, siniilar in miniature to the one at Juanpore. Several pillars in the mosque arc formed of two pieces, taken from a more ancient building, the rude base of one of which being placed up permost, serves for a capital. A great many little images were lying under the trees, but they were too much broken to be interesting. In the centre was a well now filled up, where large sums of money arc said to be secreted." For nearly eight miles, the mixture of small pieces of brick, and the vestiges of buildings, attest the former extent of this place. East Long. 80° I 3', North Lat. 27° 3'. Sec Rennes Memoir ; Valen tia's Travels, vol. i. pp. 187, 188 ; and Civil. ARCH 1TEC T (sr)