1883.] E. E. Bayne — Bemains of Old Fort William. 7 



The length o£ the N. curtain wall measures 300 feet : it is called by 

 Orme, 100 yards (see his *' History of the War in Bengal"). This 

 wall and those portions of the East and West walls which were partly 

 uncovered are 4 feet thick, built of good material and very solid. 



At the junction of the North curtain with the East curtain and again 

 with the West curtain were, first, square bastions, subsequently added to and 

 altered into bastions with flanks, sides and salients. The whole of these 

 walls were very perfect and distinct, the superstructure having been razed to 

 the ground line : all below the ground was left intact. 



The North curtain wall has been left intact and on it has been built 

 the South wall of one room of the new building which is 210 feet long. 



In that portion of the enceinte of the fort which was uncovered were 

 found the walls of the carpenter's shop, a building 90 by 40 feet with a 

 row of columns down the centre : the floor was covered with wood-ash, ia 

 some places 8 inches thick : the bricks of the floor were partly vitrified. 



The old drains, surface and underground, were found in many places, and 

 the terminal of them all in a culvert running to the river, 2'6" wide and 

 8'6" high, stopped by a wrought iron grid at the river wall which was about 

 75 feet west of the West curtain. 



West of this curtain was found the wall that formed the outer ram- 

 part and which was embrazured for guns. 



Inside of the curtains, wherever exposed, was found an inner wall 

 forming a row of chambers : this wall was 14'6" distant from the curtains 

 and this was of course the width of the chambers. This space was paved 

 with brick on edge. 



In the West curtain was found a small gateway alluded to by Orme as 

 the small gateway by which Suraja Dowleah entered the fort after its 

 capitulation, and after his parley with Mr. Holwell, the Officer of the Com- 

 pany in charge of the fort. A sill stone in the dooi' has been lifted to the 

 surface of the road and there re-set in order to note its position. 



Starting from the North curtain, the position of which is correctly known, 

 and setting out to the south the South curtain from Orme's Map and figures, 

 this curtain comes immediately at the back of the deep, heavy and pointed 

 arches in the Post Office compound, and these buildings are doubtless that 

 block of building stated by Orme as built contiguous to the south curtain 

 and outside it. 



Scaling a completion of the front, on plan, from Orme's figures and 

 plan and those now found, the site of the Black Hole would come in the 

 passage way on the north of the Post Office by which the Post Office 

 vans enter and leave to the east. The S. E. Bastion has been destroyed 

 by the foundations of the N. E. corner tower of the Post Oflace. 



Three different levels of floor were found ia the excavation : one 



