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by an unfordable tank and swamp, and save a small clear space in 

 front of the principal gateway, it was further protected both on the 

 "West and South by a deep ditch, its average depth being 12 feet 

 and breadth nearly 30 feet. 



The walls of the square redoubt, were about 40 feet high, 

 and 4^ feet thick, the bastions being 10 feet higher, and the 

 whole was carefully loopholed for musketry fire. The fire through 

 these loopholes was obtained from the roof of a line of buildings, 

 or verandah, open at the rear. This banquet was of great solidity, 

 being supported on cut stone pillars. Single stone slabs spanned 

 these pillars, which were faced with lime cement. 



The northern wall, facing the jheel, was about 25 feet high, with 

 a thickness of 3 feet ; immediately in rear and adjoining it was 

 another wall 5 feet thick, and of a height sufficient to give a mus- 

 ketry fire over the outer wall. The curtain wall connecting this 

 with the square redoubt, was 18 feet high and 5 feet thick. 



All the works were of immense strength being of stone and lime 

 cement, and when I visited them, they were found to be in excellent 

 preservation. 



Part of the works, consisting of a curtain wall outside of the 

 western ditch, as also the detached buildings within the redoubt 

 and northern, wall, had been subsequently built by the Mahrattas, 

 these being less breached and injured. 



Besides the principal gateway (opening out to the south) there 

 were two others leading into the main body of the redoubt, one to 

 the North, and one to the West. There was also an entrance 

 way in the North West curtain wall. 



The interior arrangements were very complete. The open colon- 

 nade, with a few interior apartments, would have afforded ample 

 cover for a large body of men, with space for their supplies. Water 

 was obtained from a pucka well within the works, with an additional 

 supply from the eastern tank, by means of a flight of stone steps 

 leading down to it. 



liilheree Fort boasted of an Aamkkass, or Audience Hall, which 

 wit) i some interior apartments, occupied a space of 78 feet by 

 51 feet. This was a fine hall of elegantly shaped stone pillars, 

 supporting a roof also of stone slabs and lime cement. 



