43i ' Aceomr of 



which had for. mora tiian a ccxitnry involved in oh fcurhy one o^< 

 the mpfl fpkndid Cities in Indian and for having brought lo light its- 

 bidden beauties, in a faithful defcriptica, of them written in 1T94.. 

 Sir James Mackintosh vifited Bijap^r m IBOSj and emphaticaily- 

 termed it the Palmyra. ' of the 'Dekkan. The following accounit is , . 

 •drawq horn an attenti'i^e fiiKY^ey of, thiis, .City^-aa 18 IL 



Th^ objefls wbich - attra?^ particular notice at Btjapufj ^re- ckff- 

 sd in this icnperfeS ilietcb, in the follQwing., ojrder s . 



aO: The Fori and inner CitadeTj 



ad The. remains of the City, . . 



3d,, The principal edifices and public,, work? witfuin the fort^ 



4th Thofe outlide of it, 



.5th ai:)d lafllyj a few, curfory remarks will be offered on. the hiftory'-- 

 of the., place, and on it?, p refine ftat,e» ,^ 



ift. Taa-xualiof tbe.Fort ^^as complete^ b^ A^'AAdil Shah in th^ 

 year 1566 A. D. (c). Its defences confift in a rampart flanked by 109' 



towers of diiferent .dimeafions, a ditch and covert- way. furrpunding,^.-,, 

 it^ arid^ a Citadel in £h§: interiors.. 



These work.5^are ^ery ftrpogly built,- and ^ftill in tolerable repair? .,■ 

 their exterior sod interior revetments are of hewn flonei laid in chu^ 

 nam. The parapets are compofed^ entirely of the fanxe materials^' 

 and are q feet in height, and 3 feet in thieknefsV The tov/ers are in 

 general femi-circalarB with a. radius of- about 36 feet. The curtains 

 appear to rife from the bottom of the ditch, and vsry from 30 to 4(f 

 feet in height^ being about 24 feet in thiqkneCs,. . The ditch is in man'^ 

 parts filled up, and To covered with vegetations that not -a vefl-ige^.-: 



(c) Scou'3 Historj;. of Dekkcin voL !, p. 293,. 



