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above the building, is thirty-seven feet; and that 

 its circumference, where it joins the terrace, is ten 

 feet four inches. These dimensions I have from 

 Moonshee Mohummud Mouad, who himself mea- 

 sured the pillar for Captain Hoare in July 17.97; 

 and who adds, that, as far as it could be seen, (which 

 from the ruinous state of the building it cannot be, 

 at present, below the upper terrace,) it is certainly, 

 as described in the Huft Akleem, a, single stone, of 

 reddish colour, as represented in the drawing. One 

 of Captain Hoare's drawings further represents the 

 plans of the three stories of the Shikar-gah, and his 

 Moo72shee informs me, the current opinion is, that 

 they were used partly for a menagery, and partly for 

 an aviary, which the plans appear to confirm. 



Perhaps the same misguided religious zeal, which 

 prompted his severity towards the inhabitants of 

 Cumaoon, may have impelled him to erect a mansion 

 for birds and beasts, round a venerable relict of 

 Hindoo antiquity ; the age of which cannot, I con- 

 ceive, be determined by the date of the inscription 

 now comm.unicated to the Society, as the character 

 of it is modern, and altogether different from the 

 older inscriptions, not yet explained. 



J.H.HARINGTON. 



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