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now remains of all my excavations, every stone and every brick having 
been removed long ago. 
264. The last excavations at Sarnath were made at the expense 
of Government under the personal superintendence of Major Kittoe. 
On his departure for England in January 1853, in ill-health, he 
earried away all his measurements and memoranda for the purpose 
of compiling an account of his discoveries for publication. His 
continued ill-health and early death effectually prevented the fulfil- 
ment of this intention, and no one, as far as I can learn, knows what 
has become of his papers. His drawings, which were numerous and 
valuable, were sent to the India House Museum by Mr. Thomason. 
One of them has since been published in 1855 by Mr. Fergusson in 
his “‘ Hand Book of Architecture,’”—Vol. I. page 7; and another in 
1856, by Mrs. Spiers, in her “ Life in Ancient India”—page 267. 
Major Kittoe’s inscriptions were entrusted to the charge of the 
Asiatic Society in Calcutta, evidently in deposit for the sake of safety, 
as he hoped to return again to India, and to prepare them for publi- 
eation with his own hand. 
265. My account of Major Kittoe’s discoveries must necessarily 
be brief, as the only information which I possess is contained in 2 
long letter from himself, dated 19th May, 1852, and in Mr. Thomas’s 
‘* Note on the excavations at Sarnath,” which was published in the 
Bengal Asiatic Society’s Journal for 1854, page 469. In writing 
to Major Kittoe previously I had mentioned the three stupas which 
T had myself opened, and which I have already described. In reply 
he wrote, “ How do you make out three towers at Sarnath ? I make 
out four, to say nothing of innumerable smaller affairs down to the 
size of a walnut, which I had laid bare.” Attached to this he gave 
a rough sketch of the ground, showing the position of the fourth tower 
to be immediately to the north of Jagat Singh’s stupa, where I have 
accordingly inserted it, on his authority, in my survey of the ruins. 
Further on he writes, “I have laid bare ehaityas upon chaityas, four 
and five deep, built one over the other.” In another place he 
describes the oblong court-yard which was excavated by himself, at 
a distance of 125 feet to the westward of the great tower, as a “large 
quadrangle, or hospital, for I have found pestles and mortars, sills 
(or flat stones for mashing,) loongas, &e. &e.” This is the quad- 
rangle marked Z in my plan of the ruins. It is 60 feet long from 
