338 ON ORISSA PROPER OR CUTTACK. 



rounded on the side opposed to the current, eight and six feet; the height 

 of the parapet, which is a modern addition, is six feet. 



Of the other native buildings of the province little need be said. The 

 Stone rivetment at Cuttack, a work of magnitude and indispensible utility, 

 is probably of Mogul origin, built in imitation of a more ancient one, the 

 remains of which are still to be seen. Fort Barabati has been described 

 in speaking of the modern capital. The ruins extant of the old palaces of 

 the Rajas, at Cuttack, Choudwar, Jajpur, and Bhubaneswer, are mere 

 shapeless masses of stone and mounds of earth, which it would be fruitless 

 to attempt any detailed account of. The ancient fortress of Sarengerh, on the 

 south bank of the Kajuri, opposite to Cuttack, is remarkable for the great 

 distance to which its works may be traced, but no portion of it remains 

 habitable, and a modern killah, of the Musselman time, occupies the site 

 Of the citadel and palace of the first of the Ganga Vansa Rajas. 



