JACOBABAD
The house depicted in the illustration had been built by General Jacob for himself and his lieutenants. The published notes to this picture record: 'It is
stated that the piece of ground on which the house inhabited by General Jacob is built, and which has been turned into a beautiful garden was, perhaps, the worst bit in the country; the soil so impregnated with salt that nothing would grow on it. General Jacob had the soil thoroughly remade, for abbut three feet in depth, so that not only have trees flourished well, but every cold season there is a~'fine show of all the English annual plants, and all English vegetables are produced in the greatest perfection. The first tree was planted in 1848, and there are now hundreds of them, many about thirty feet high, and having trunks four feet and more in circumference. The area of the garden is about twenty-five acres.'
By 1876, the building had become known as the Residency. It was described as 'an immense pile' containing a library, workshops, eight suites of apartments in one of which were displayed two clocks made by General Jacob himself. The upper storey of the building was dismantled in 1879.
General Jacob was buried in Jacobabad on 5 December 1858.
