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the Fort, in which were situated the apartments of the Governor. This 

 was in its day one of the finest English houses in India. It consisted of 

 a main building facing the river, with two wings behind at right angles 

 to the main building. Almost all the foundation walls of these wings 

 have been traced out by excavations, and the position of the walls of the 

 main building has been ascertained, although the walls themselves could 

 not be traced out, as the site of the main building is at present occupied 

 by the Government Opium godowns and by the out-houses of the Custom 

 House. 13esides this, Mr. Wilson has endeavoured as far as possible to as- 

 certain the positions of the south curtain, of the south-east bastion, and of 

 that portion of the east curtain which lay between the south-east bastion 

 and the east gate, together with the adjoining arcades and chambers. 

 Considerable difficulty has been experienced in coming to any definite con- 

 clusion on these points ; for, in the first place, the Post Office covers the site 

 of the south-cast bastion and the adjacent south curtain wall, and so pre- 

 vents any extended excavations in this region ; and in the second 

 place, the plan of the old Fort which has elsewhere proved to be 

 extremely accurate, seems at this point to fail. Still, in spite of these 

 difficulties, Mr. Wilson has been able to definitely fix the position of the 

 south curtain wall and of the three parallel lines of arches within it, and 

 to show that tradition was right in asserting that the old arcade and 

 arches which still stand in the Post Office compound were part 

 of the old Fort. The arches of the south face of this arcade arc 

 what remains of the first line of arches within the south curtain, and 

 the arches in the middle of the arcade are what remain of the second 

 line of arches. The foundation wall of the third and innermost line of 

 arches has been traced out for some distance. It was found in the 

 passage on the north of the Post Office. Starting from this wall, or, 

 what is practically the same thing, from the north face of the Post 

 Office. Mr. Wilson has traced out the east curtain wall as far as the east 

 gate, the inner wall containing the chambers built against the curtain, 

 and the wall of the piazza or verandah running west of the chambers. 

 The Black Hole prison was one of these chambers ; but to fix its exact 

 position it is necessary to ascertain, not merely the positions of the cur- 

 tain wall and the inner wall, which foi'med its eastern and western walls, 

 but also the position of the cross- walls which formed its northern and 

 southern boundaries, and divided it off from the other chambers built 

 against the east curtain. Unfortunately these cross-walls were run up 

 with hardly any foundation, and hence it is extremely difficult to trace 

 their position. One such cross-wall has been found at a distance of 

 about 100 ft. from the centre of the east gate, and to the south of this 

 there i.-> another cross-wall which Mr. Baync discovered iu 1883, and 



