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name of the‘ Pandus Fort.’ According to my survey there are 
only 32 towers, but it is quite possible that one or two may have 
escaped my notice, as I found many parts so overgrown with thorny 
jungle as to be inaccessible. The towers are generally from 28 
to 30 feet in height, excepting on the west side, where they rise to 
35 feet. A single tower near the south-west corner is 47 feet in 
height above the road outside. The average height of the interior 
mass is from 15 to 20 feet. Many of the present towers, however, 
are not ancient, as an attempt was made by Ali Muhammad Khan, 
about 200 years ago, to restore the fort with a view of making it his 
stronghold in case he should be pushed to extremities by the King 
of Delhi. The new walls are said to have been 1} guz thick, which, 
agrees with my measurements of ‘the parapets on the south-eastern 
side, which vary from 2 feet 9 inches to 3 feet 3 inches in thickness 
at top. According to popular tradition, Ali Muhammad expended 
about a crore of rupees, or one million pounds sterling, in this 
attempt, which he was finally obliged to abandon on account of its 
costliness. I estimate that he may perhaps have spent about one 
lakh of rupees, or £10,000, in repairing the ramparts and in rebuilding 
the parapets. There is an arched gateway on the south-east side, 
which must have been built by the Musalmans, but as no new 
bricks were made by them, the cost of their work would have been 
limited to the labour alone. The ramparts are 18 feet thick at 
the base in some places, and between 14 and 15 feet in others. 
209. There are three great mounds inside the fort, and outside, 
both to the north and west, there are a number of mounds of all sizes, 
from 20 feet to 1,000 feet inthe diameter. To the north-west, distant 
one mile, there is a large tank called the Gandhén Sagar, which has 
an area of 125 begahs, and about one quarter of a mile beyond it 
there is another tank called the Adi Sdgar, which has an area of © 
150 begahs. The latter is said to have been made by Adi Raja at 
the same time as the fort. The waters are collected by an earthen 
embankment faced on both sides with bricks of large size. The Gandhdn 
Sdgar is also embanked both to the east and south. The mounds. 
to the south of the tanks are covered with large bricks, both plain 
and moulded; but judging from their shapes, they must all have 
belonged to temples, or other straight walled buildings, and not to 

