1870.] Notes on Old Delhi. 71 



Anekpal or Anangpal who restored the city of Delhi, making it 

 again the capital of his kingdom. 



The tank which is situated on high ground in the Delhi Hills a 

 mile or so south of ' Adilabad, is not round as stated by Sayyid Ahmad, 

 but is rather in the shape of an arc of a circle, since the west side is 

 a straight line for very nearly its whole length, until at its north end 

 it turns with a re-entering angle, and is continued a short distance 

 towards a gorge which here meets the tank, and pours into it the 

 drainage of the hilly ground. Except at this corner, where the 

 stone-work probably was entirely discontinued to receive the hill 

 streams, the tank is surrounded by a series of steps formed by large 

 blocks of smoothed stone. These steps for a height of nine or ten 

 feet are about the ordinary width of tank steps, but higher up, the 

 space between successive steps becomes much wider, and the floor 

 between is covered with cement, so as to form a succession of spa- 

 cious terraces, running one above the other round the water ; the 

 upper terrace which was on a level with the adjacent country, being 

 surrounded with a massive stone wall. In the centre of the western 

 wall, is a broad staircase with side walls of simply sculptured stone 

 leading to the Fort, or fortified Haweli rather, of the constructor of 

 the tank. The ruins of this building are still distinctly visible, 

 occupying the hill top, which is here of no great size. The outer 

 wall which crowns the crest of the ravine at the North- West 

 corner of the tank before referred to, is very thick, and seems very 

 singularly to be constructed as two walls standing side by side and 

 forming one a lining to the other. In one spot on this face, I obser- 

 ved the ground had been taken advantage of to build a circular 

 projecting tower. Immediately opposite the staircase leading to 

 this fort, a precisely similar one was carried up to the top of the 

 tank enclosure, where stands what is now a confused ruin of no 

 great size, but probably once was a temple. Towards the northern 

 portion of this curved side, is a sloping way for the use of cattle. 



Although this fine work now stands in a desolate and apparently 

 hopelessly sterile portion of the hilly range, there are numerous 

 wells and relics of ancient buildings scattered around, showing it 

 was once a populous locality. Do not the broken or dried up wells 

 and ruins found so frequently in the Delhi hills, where the 



