210 ALLAHABAD. 
and completely commands the navigation of the two rivers. 
Although it contains a palace, yet from the uniformity of the tops 
of the buildings, it has not a very striking effect. We made thirty 
coss this day. 
September 9. — We were at breakfast by gun fire, and imme- 
diately afterwards set off to visit Colonel Kyd, the commanding 
officer, at his house above the fort, which we reached in an hour 
and a half, by tracking up the Jumna. It consists chiefly of an 
old mosque, the centre of which, with its dome, forms an excellent 
room; the sides are bedchambers. The internal accommodations 
are excellent, and the view from it, including the fort and two rivers, 
is fine. After breakfast we visited the fort ; it is perfectly defended 
by the old walls on the two fronts next the river, with the addition 
of some cannon mounted on them. The Jumna is here nearly four- 
teen hundred yards wide, and the Ganges a mile. The third side is 
perfectly modern, and is made as strong as the irregularity of the 
site will admit. It has three ravelins, two bastions, and a half bastion, 
and stands higher than any ground in face of it. The gateway is 
Grecian, and elegant. On the side facing the Jumna one building is 
converted into an excellent set of apartments for the officers. The 
house of the Governor, in particular, is spacious and cool, with 
large subterranean rooms overhanging the river. The fronts are 
Grecian, and uniform. In the same line another building is modern- 
ised, and converted into barracks for the non-comniissioned officers. 
In the angle is a square palace where Shah Allum kept his women : 
there is an excellent drawing of it by Daniel. The external appear- 
ance is preserved, but all the detached buildings which surrounded 
it are pulled down. It is a square of six hundred feet, surrounding an 
