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build on its circumference twelve or thirteen brick 

 pillars, say, 18 inches square and 2-J feet high, and at 

 its centre a circular pillar of the same height, and 

 about 3 feet in diameter. On these pillars construct 

 a boarded floor, and build on it a strong bamboo 

 wicker-work house, 9 or 10 feet high. This is plaster- 

 ed over, a small door is left at the top, and a light 

 thatched roof is put over the whole. A house, such 

 as I have described, would cost, say, 25 rupees, and 

 would hold about 700 maunds of oats. 



