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I am also informed that Mr. Gordon of the P.W.D. found 
lately in a cemetery lying between the Ludlow Castle Road and 
Underhill Road two shafts of an underground passage. They are 
about 30 ft. deep. Mr. Gordon thought they were almost cer- 
tainly used for bringing water from the canal to feed some wells 
under the ridge. The connecting tunnel was about 4 ft. high out 
and filled with canal silt. The Executive Engineer at Delhi 
suggested the same explanation. If so, it is argued that the © 
tunnel would not be earlier than the canal, viz., ‘Ali Mardan 
Khan’s time. i 
Since ‘Ali Mardin Khan was at Delhi between 1637 and 
1657, I answer that, if the shafts now discovered prove to be 
connected with his canal, they do not disprove the existence of 
Firoz Shah’s tunnels, these being mentioned much earlier by 
Monserrate (1581), by Abi-l Fazl (ante 1596) and Finch (1611). 
If Firoz Shah’s tunnels had been aqueducts too, how is it pos- 
sible that, two centuries at most after their construction, and 
at a time when they were in a much better state of preservation 
than they may be now, tradition stated they had been used by 
Firoz Shah to go from one place to another ‘ 
Firoz Shalf was himself a great builder of canals (cf. 
Etuior, Hist. of India, III. 300, 483; IV. 8, 11; VI. 225; Vil. 
86); but I fancy that these canals must have been open, above 
ground, Even, if in parts they should not have been so, it 
would be hard to understand how Aba-l Fazl should have Ae 
; : ; ni 
a : irozaba . Ain, Col. Jarrett’s transl., II. 279. 
Shah near Firozabad. Cf. Ain, Co CC otyag aie 
Shah to Delhi, Within the fort of Hisar Firozah ‘a palace 
and, 
here in search of him 
Ss. 
( irikh-i Firoz Shahi of 
This extract is taken from the Tarikh-s aan (Exx107, 
complete (ibid., p. 
The underground P cong in the Palace of Hisar Firozah 
