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jh appears. In other parts it feems^'to have been formed through 

 i-ock, in breadth from 40 to 50 feet,,and about 18 in depth, a re- 

 veted counterfcarp is difcernible in many places, and the remains 

 of a hne of masonry running in a parallel diredion at the diftance 

 of about 70 yards in front of this, point out the boundary of the co- 

 vert-v/ay. The circumference of the counterfcarp is 61^ miles and 

 . the form of the Fort an irregular circle. 



The works of the Citadel (d) are compofed of the fame ma» 

 ierials; it is regular and the defences confift cf a rampart 

 and faufse-braye flanked by towers and a wet ditch about 120 

 feet in breadth ; the fpace between the ramparls and the v/all of 

 the fauffe-braye is very broad, the ditch entirely furroands it 3 

 but the ramparts of the body of the place are not complete : 

 there being about 3 furlongs in length on the north face open. 

 The circumference of the counterfcarp of the ditch is about 5 

 furlongs^ It's water is good and contains abundance of fine 

 Sfh, but no alligators, as has been Hated by former writers. There 

 h but one entrance into the place, which is through two gates ; one 

 of them called the iron gate, is of wood cafed with that metal, (e) 



The Citadel is faid to have been built by Yu'suf AAdil Shah (he 

 founder of the tlynafty of Bifupur, and afterwards improved by 

 his fuccefTors. 



2dly. To the weflward of the Fort are the remair'si of a mod ex- 

 tenhve City. To trace its limits would be a day's work. It is noo, 

 an immenfe mafs of ruins, but from the innumerable tombs. 



(il) Kilai arag. 



('■) For this liescriptloa of the Fort I am chlertf indebted to a Memoir of ihe late Lieut. D ivies of 

 IheMidrag Engioeors, liiutJIy cooicQuascited by CoIoqoI rvlveltenzie, Surveyor Gjoeral of luiii.- 



