102 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1911, 
in the long list of buildings, canals, dams, bridges, and other 
works enumerated by him, is the total omission of even the 
name of a road, India’s greatest want, and the deficiency of 
which the Sultan had so signally experienced while personally 
in command of retiring armies.’’ (Cf. The Chron. of the Pathan 
Kings of Delhi, London, 1871, p. 274.) 
t should not surprise us, if some of the works executed 
under Firdz Shah had been attributed by fulsome flatterers to 
later rulers, in particular to Akbar and Jahangir. It has been 
the case in so many other instances. At any rate, let it be 
working out in stadia the length of the tunnel. It was about 
43 A a. — stadium being 606 feet 9 inches English. 
€ 8) 
ur next European "reference to the tunnel is dated 
30 years later. W. Finch, who was in Delhi in 1611, after 
: the monument is sai , : 
ground to Dely Castle.’? | By. said to be a way under 
tainly Old Delhi. . 
as five zarib long, 
two kos long, and 
Pithora, about five kos 
next, too, would be foun : ia P. 219), it was hoped that the 
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wehas hie Pilgrimes, Glasgow, J. Maclehose, 1905, Vol. IV. 
