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been left without a special coating in the midst of the material 

 intervening between the roof below and the floor 'above ; and se- 

 condly, I am not aware of any case of a story being built above the 

 story on the Court level. The only thing to support the theory of 

 a double story is the bad effect of arches opening below into a 

 room and above to the sky ; and a block of stone projecting on the 

 back of ,the front wall of the north mosque at a height above the 

 level of the roof, and looking as if it belonged to the support of a 

 roof or other erection at that higher level. As to the first of these 

 reasons, the remaining features of the building, as already discussed, 

 show how unsafe it would be to apply our notions to the way in 

 which these arches were treated ; and as to the second point, although 

 I have no theory even to offer as to the purpose to which the pro- 

 jecting stone was applied, it seems less difficult to admit this than 

 to hang on it alone the anomaly of an upper story. 



Extent of the Mosques of Shams -ud-din Altamsh. 



From the language used by General Cunningham at p. 2, it is 

 clear that he considers the whole of the longer and outer southern 

 ■cloister as belonging to these mosques. With all deference to his au- 

 thority as an archaeologist, I more than doubt whether the cloisters 

 of Altamsh extended further than the Qutb Manar itself, and the 

 portion to the east, I believe,, belongs to a later period, probably 

 that of 'Ala-ud-din Khilji. I found this on four reasons ; first, the 

 pillars to the west of the Manar are all of one pattern, and this the 

 same as in the fragmentary colonnade before the east door of the 

 lesser mosque, which I consider belongs to this erection, while the 

 columns to the east of the Manar, which are also all alike, are of a 

 different pattern ; secondly, the line of the columns to the east and 

 west of the Manar is slightly different ; thirdly, the stones facing 

 the wall at the east end are larger and better cut than those in the 

 west part ; and lastly and principally, the windows in the wall 

 near the mosque are oblong, and generally resemble those in Qutb- 

 ud-din's building, whereas to the east from the Manar downwards 

 they are arched and filled in with trellis work in red sandstone, 

 and closely resemble the windows in 'Alaud-clin's porch. I infer 

 therefore that Shamsud-din's north and south walls reached only 



