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are broken, and the roof fallen in. The north side has been ori- 

 ginally of the same construction: but the stone casemate has been 

 totally removed, and its place supplied with earth, which has 

 been so much washed away lay the rain, that in many places 

 there is only room for one man on the terreplein ; and in some, 

 no footing at all. The parapet of this face is only of mud, and in 

 many places entirely broken down. The east side is in the worst 

 repair of any; it has, like the rest, a stone wall, but there is hardly 

 any terreplein, and the parapet is almost washed away; it has 

 this advantage, that the ditch is deep, and retains water most part 

 of the year. 



" The number of inhabitants in Dhuboy is about forty thousand, 

 mostly Hindoos, including a very large proportion of brahmins. 

 There are three hundred Mahomedan families; but no Parsees 

 have yet settled here. 



" The manufactures chiefly consist of coarse dooties, sent from 

 hence to be dyed at Surat for the Mocha and Judda markets; no 

 very fine cottons are wove here; the common sort dyed in the city 

 are generally for home consumption. Ghee and the coarse cottons 

 called dooties are the staple commodities of Dhuboy. The cus- 

 toms collected in the capital, and at the naukas, or smaller custom- 

 houses in the purgunna, seldom exceed sixteen thousand rupees a 

 3^ear. 



" Dhuboy is the only fortified town in this district. There was a 

 small gurry at Verah, which has been almost washed away by 

 heavy rains, and is now a scene of ruin. Chandode and Nun- 

 daria are now added to the Dhuboy purgunna; the revenues of 

 these villages amount this year to four thousand rupees, and the 



