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these, with cleaning out the ditch on the north face, where it was 

 entirely filled up, fell short of one thousand rupees. 



" The durbar had for many years been in so ruinous a state, that 

 the Mahratta pundit would not reside there; it was scarcely habit- 

 able when colonel Keating wintered here in 177^> from that lime 

 it had been converted into smiths'-shops, powder-mills, and other 

 conveniences, from the natural aversion of the Hindoos to reside 

 in a house that has been inhabited by Europeans. I have been as 

 frugal as possible in rendering it commodious for myself, and have 

 repaired the houses allotted to the English officers, Serjeants, and 

 artillery -men, and the caravansary used for an hospital. 



" The foregoing remarks will I trust be satisfactory; and con- 

 vince you that nothing has been undertaken which could be 

 avoided, and that every thing has been done at as small an ex- 

 pense as possible. 



(Signed) James Forbes." 



Dhuboy, 



3\st January, 1781. 



As the estimate which I afterwards delivered to the chief of Ba- 

 roche for further repairs to the fortifications at Dhuboy, recom- 

 mended by general Goddard and colonel Kyd, (engineer in the Ben- 

 gal army, when the general and his staff were with me during the 

 rainy season in 1781), is very short, and contains the price of bricks, 

 mortar, labour, and other articles, I annex the estimated account 

 for the information of the reader, and have put the amount into 

 English money, as well as in the Bombay currency of rupees, 

 quarters, and reas. By this will be seen the great difference in 



