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Description of the Chandrarehhagurh. 



[No. 3, 



These simple rectangular mouldings were the only ornaments or 

 carvings I could detect on a very careful search throughout the whole 

 fort. There is not a curved line in any stone in the whole work. 

 The wall certainly ran up to the height which I have shewn in the 

 sketch of the cornice. I cannot find any stone higher than that, and 

 from the fact that three of the few stones left of that tier have a ledge in 



them (as shewn in the margin) on the inner 

 side of the wall, I suppose that the timbers 

 of the roof rested on this tier. The curious 

 part about the building is, that there is not, 

 and never was, any door whatever. I ex- 

 amined the walls everywhere, and by the 

 lines of the stones it is quite clear that it 

 was deliberately intended that there should 

 be no entrance into these rooms, whatever 

 there might have been to the roof. The 

 want of debris shews that there was no 

 upper story. Nor is there any commu- 

 nication whatever between the three rooms. An entrance has been 

 forced of course, since the place became a ruin, but the position of 

 l he stones at the place is still at this present moment such as to shew 



