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price, of building in India and England, especially in the article 

 of labour; which also extends proportionably in all manufactures, 

 and the various branches of agriculture. In the followino- estimate 

 the usual profit which the Company allowed lo their paymasters 

 and storekeepers, is included in the charges. 



Estimate of the expense in taking down the ?nud wall in the fortifica- 

 tions at Dhuboij, and rebuilding it with bricks and chunam, on the 

 ancient stone foundation, being in length 3520 feet; including the 

 retaining wall and the parapet in this measurement. 



Rupees. 



Bricks, thirty lacs, 5,000,000, at 2 rupees 2 quarters, about 



6s. per million 7,500 



Chunam, (mortar) 10,560 moondah, at 1 rupee 1 quarter, 



or 3s. per million 13,200 



Bricklayers 4,520, at one quarter of a rupee, or l\d. per day 1,130 



Biggarees, (labourers) 8,600, at 50 reas, or 2>%d. per day . 1 ,075 



Master bricklayers, at half a rupee, 15c?. per day ... 90 



Stone-cutters , . . ditto . . .ditto 450 



Pacaulies, (water carriers) ropes, baskets, iron utensils, and 



other necessary articles, about 106/. 5s. . . . 850 



Rupees . 24,295 

 £. sterling . 3,036 



I have inserted the preceding documents and accounts, not 

 only to gratify the wishes of some particular friends, but to con- 

 vince my readers in general, that there was a regular system in 



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