280 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1912. 
removed to some distance, but it still continued. There was a 
tradition of an underground passage from the Metcalfe-house 
to the Palace,! and the soldiers, having got hold of it, would 
not be convinced but that the rebels were working a mine under 
their feet. So I reported the matter, and the General ordered 
the engineers to examine inte it, as a panic might arise from 
even more slender materials than the sound of a miner’s pick. 
The engineers came down, sank a shaft, listened, looked about, 
and were satisfied that no gallery was being made. Still, how- 
ever, the knocking continued, and all were completely puzzled. 
The idea of a tunnel was simply ridiculous, for, unless arched 
and cemented like the Thames tunnel, it would be under water 
half the year. Unfortunately, the inquiry into this matter 
was destined to have a tragical termination 
‘“* On the night of the 19th, Captain T. M. Greensill, attached 
to the Engineer department, went down with a party of 
H.M.’s 75th, under Lieutenant Wadeson, to examine a large 
ravine, considerably nearer to Delhi, to ascertain if the rebels 
were endeavouring to work a mine from thence, as it was just 
possible they might ... [Captain Greensill was accidentally shot 
during the search by ‘Lieutenant Wadeson, as he neglected to 
reply to the challenge and was mistaken, from his white clothes, 
for a mutineer. 
Sere ‘* The origin of the noise was subsequently dis- 
under the city wall. The picket-house was built on Sane 
made of the rubble from Metcalfe-house, but in —— way it 
acted to carry the sound I am unable to decide. 
It is not impossible that some reminiscence of “ros Shah's 
tunnels should linger in the wild stories which Diogo do 
and ‘‘even to the country of the Moghuls and the tow 
of Agra.’’ Old Hindis told him still that there were ‘‘ numer- 
ous roads like this, instep under ground in several parts 
of Cambay and the Decca 
Mr. C. Hyrapiet, an ree who promises to prove that 
the builder of the Taj was an. Armenian, and that Mariam 

1 The Fort of Delhi is meant here , as is clear from the plans of 
the town at that time; but, in the light of the Ain, there m ust have 
een a misconception. o tunnel ran between Metcalfe’s house and 
the Fort. The three tunnels, if I hae sogige d the Ain rightly, radiated 
from Firoz Sh&h’s palace or ‘the Kotila. There is a difficulty, however. 
The distance from Firozabad to the Jahan was 3 kos; tt at of the 
ae ‘** towards the J ahaceinnt, 2 kos. f. Ain, Jarrett’s transl. , II, 
2? I am obliged to the Rev. Fr. G. Lowyck, S.J., St. Xavier’s 
College, jon: having pointed out these erence: 
Cf. D. do Couto, Tom. IV, pt. I, Da Asia, Dec. VII, Bk. III, 
Ch. X, p. 243 (Lisboa, 1782). 
