The plainness and simplicity of this edifice is more striking than the richness of its decorations; a circumstance seldom occurring in gateways belonging to Mahomedan princes. This gate leads to a palace erected by Nawaub Sujah ul Dowla, a building of considerable magnificence, and which has been much enlarged by his son Nawaub Assoph ul Dowla.

Lucknow is six hundred and forty-nine miles from Calcutta on the river Goomty, which falls into the Ganges near the village of Siedabad below Benares.