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psJacCs prefenis to the view three lofty ' arches ; the ■ centre one of 



which is of extraordinary dimenfiGniS. It is 60 feel:- broad, and 8 deep, 



and the height appears about 80 feer. Next to this is the A- 



nanda Mahh which has the ^appearance from the Hylein which it is 



boiltj of having been the refidence of the ladies of the Bararn, 



^djoining^,^ this j's-the AdaxQlut-Khdnah, or court»ofJuriiee, htuated 



at the extremity of a court 150 yards long by .80 broad. Here th-c; 



Sultans were .indailed, in a halcony prcjeclin^ from the upper 



ftory^ where alfo juftice vvas adminirtered. In front of the buiidin"g 



is a large fountain,, and at the oppofite end of ths^couit is a, low range 



of bmldings v/ith a front of 30 archesjin which the Um r a ks attended 



.in waiting. There is a black ftone a few paces before the centre 



of this arcade, called the mujri gdh, from v/hich the officers of the 



court ufed to perform their obeifanccs. On the right of the front of 



tkeJdGzolut Kkanah i^ihtSona iU^/U, which, ,as its name implies, w.vs 



ric'b'y gilded, but now hardly a veuige of this ornament remains. 



Oppofue to the Soim Mahk is .the Sicca Mahl, m which was kept tV.c 



privy-Ieah Beyond this is the Pdni MM, builton^the brink of ihc 



dkch on the northern fide of the Citadel. , The -upper room is faced 



with black granite, covered with fculpture4,; infcnp tions in the 



j'cgra^ not one of which I could decypher, :From this place the 



S'ohT Ills iikd to view combats between elephanrs,. their menagerie 



and hiLning eflablifhrnentSj and parties of troops in review order, 



on, a fiiiall plain irnmedicitely beyond the -ditch. .-Af^er having paf- 



fed the .eapLerii. ,gaLeway of the Citadel, . you fee on entering the 



Fort pa the „fides^of the road four pilars .-of black -marble, an offering 



.from the v/idow.of Ramraj to Ali-AAdil Shah. One of them isoarv- 



eds the other .plain aocl- circular. ■ -Their diameter is one ciibit, 



and they are faid to be 15 feet high r but not more than a third 



of them is feeoj the rell being furrounded with a fupport qF ilcne 



t)nd mud. On the, curtain oiitDde of this gate is a carved repre- 



fenlation of the head of Rameaj, incliainp: downwards .in comrne- 



