64 Captain Blane's Memoir on Sirmbr. 



manding all the neighbouring heights. They are built of stone, connected 

 with wooden binders. The want of water is their chief weakness, and must 

 ultimately cause their surrender to an investing force, unless covered by 

 an army from without, to secure a supply of this necessary article. An 

 army, in this situation, fortifies itself with wooden stockades ; and the fort, 

 which they are intended to cover, becomes no more than a point in the 

 position ; and its fall must necessarily follow a successful attack on the 

 covering force. 



G. R. B. 



Delhi, 18 February 1816. 



