41 R. R. Bayne — Hcccavations on site of Old Fort William. [Feb., 



Going west, the west curtain has been passed and 18 feet within it 

 the inner wall of the chambers, a shallow wall but no verandah again. So 

 that I can now safely say that the verandahs did not go entirely round the 

 fort interior. 



Beyond this, I cannot reconcile anything with my find to the north. 

 There are no less than fi.ve walls all of a date subsequent to tlie old wall 

 just alluded to, all parallel to it, that is, all running north and south at about 

 the same angle. 



These walls are all very well built, some with not very deep founda- 

 tions, all with a brick 10 X 5 (full dimensions) by 2 inches thick : the last 

 is 140 feet west of the west curtain. 



Within this last wall is anotlier wall V 8" thick and the wall imme« 

 diately east of this is also T'S" thick (the only walls less than three feet 

 thick) : they are 16 feet apart and I think have formed a landing place of 

 narrow steps round a central " well" of Q'Q" square. 



Nearly all this 140 feet is "filling," that is, made-up ground : the last 

 96 feet is all filling and to a depth below the 6 feet bottom of the trench. 



As these walls take one outside the Fort, I have not examined them 

 further. The whole of the upper surface is road-metal on brick on edge on 

 brick flat over rubbish : this extends down about 18 inches and the very 

 perfect old brick on edge on brick flat, found to the north and laid at right 

 angles to the curtain wall, is here wanting : all I have just alluded to is 

 quite modern. 



I have postponed any further search here until my return in April to 

 Calcutta. The operations of the Municipality in laying in this pipe have 

 been most opportune and have helped me considerably. I have to thank 

 the overseer in charge for his assistance. 



Dr. M'Cann remarked that as these further excavations had shown 

 that the gateway of the fort was further to the south than Mr. Bayne 

 had originally inferred, the south curtain wall might also be further to 

 the south, so that Dr. Chevers's inference that the arches in the Post Office 

 compound had lain just inside this wall might after all be correct.* He 

 further stated that Mr. Bayne had pointed out to him that the long slope 

 of the ditch as exposed by him was towards the fort, whilst the short slope 

 was outwards, which was contrary to the usual mode of constructing 

 ditches to cover fortifications. 



* Mr. Bayne subsequently remarked as follows on this suggestion. " I do not 

 think this at all likely, as my centre line of the east entrance of the Fort was conjecture 

 and was only a few feet to the north of its position as now ascertained, and if the 

 arcade was inside the Fort as supposed by Dr. Oheveis, then the east and west sides of 

 the fort would he over 50 feet longer than stated by Orme, whereas Orme's dim.ensions 

 "bring the south curtain wall close to these arcades and we are told of the existence of 

 fiat-roofed warehouses abutting on the curtain wall. 



