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than by any of its architectural beauties ancient or
modern.
Allahabad is the modern seat of the Government of
the United Provinces, and it is the great central junction
of the Indian railway system. From Allahabad the Great
Indian strikes south-westward to Bombay, so that here we
find an immense central railway establishment. The city
is about equal to Delhi in size, both including something

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less than 200,000 inhabitants, and much inferior in architectural
 interest. Allahabad may be said to mark the
division between the climate of the north and that of
the south of India. It is from Allahabad, northwards,
that the general fall in temperature is usually marked.
The ancient name of Allahabad is Prag, and its situation
at the confluence of the Jumna and the Ganges has always
secured for it the foremost position amongst the sacred
cities of the Hindus. Here are special evidences of the
strong vitality of the Brahmanism of the present: and here