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into a shaft of the same size down to the top of the mound. This 

 shaft is quite exposed from about 3 feet of the floor down to the 

 top of the mound, by the falling away of half the tower, whenever 

 that occurred. The tower is built of very large sun-dried bricks, 

 17 x 13 * 3' 5". But in this chamber was formerly a flooring 

 of burnt bricks of the same size as the sun-dried ones, laid in lime 

 cement with the copper-plate bedded in the middle, while round 

 the plate on the four sides, walls of the same kind of brick and 

 mortar were raised, about 2 feet high, forming a sort of chamber 

 with the copperplate at the bottom. In this, the coins, mixed with 

 some pieces of iron, a few beads, fragments of ornaments, all mixed 

 up with ashes and earth, were found. The men who were charged 

 with the clearing out of this, unfortunately pulled the whole of the 

 masonry down.' 



' The mound upon first sight appears to be merely a heap of earth 

 covered with the deiris fallen from the tower ; but upon closer 

 examination, it turns out to be a regularly built tower, formed wholly 

 of the sun-dried bricks above described.' 



' "When we arrived on Monday about noon, such was the state we 

 found it in, the workmen already assembled had diig a few holes 

 here and there in the mounds, and had come upon some loose 

 bricks fpuccaj at the S. E. After some consideration, we divided 

 the men into two companies, and thinking there might be a second 

 chamber at some distance under where the first -was found, as in the 

 tope of Manikyala, we set one of the companies to sink a trench at the 

 middle of the mound, carrying it right at the centre of the tower as 

 shewn by the dotted line in the plan. (Vide PI. III.) The others were 

 set to work to excavate the mound where the bricks had been dis- 

 covered. The result of the two days' labour was the cutting of the 

 trench into the heart of the tower to a depth of 10 feet below the 

 original level, or 25 feet below the floor of the chamber, but as yet 

 some 10 or 12 feet to the ground level remained unexplored. No- 

 thing, down to this, had been found. The whole had been remarkably 

 well built of sun-dried bricks of unusual compactness. The other 

 work proved more interesting by uncovering a considerable portion 

 of a piece of well built foundations arranged as shewn in the plan, 

 consisting in some places of a double wall, 35 feet thick, with a 



