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interior palace. When the King used to reside here, the Zenana was 
divided into twelve suites of apartments by walls which passed 
from the palace: these are destroyed, but a covered way encircling 
the interior palace at a small distance, is preserved, and turned 
into store rooms for artillery. The centre building is modernised, 
and formed into a magazine, which purpose it answers most admi- 
rably. The large outer building is, on three sides, a barrack for pri- 
vates ; the interior front is Grecian, and uniform ; the fourth is for 
stores. To the right again, on the bank of the Ganges, is a barrack 
for two hundred artillery-men. All have large doors and windows, 
admitting a thorough air. One powder magazine is finished, and 
holds fifteen hundred barrels. These improvements have been car- 
ried on by Colonel Kyd during a five year's residence, and are ex- 
ecuted in a very masterly manner. They have cost twelve lacs, and 
it is money well laid out. No native power can ever take it, and a 
regular siege would be necessary, were an European army before it. 
It is the grand depot for our upper provinces, which seem to be 
hourly increasing in size and consequence. In the centre of the fort 
is a Hindoo temple, the top of which is level with the ground. I 
descended into it by a long sloping passage, and found it square, 
and supported by pillars. In the centre is the Lingam, and at the 
western end is a dead forked tree. Behind is a narrow passage, 
which the Brahmin assured me passed from hence to Delhi. As a 
man could only enter it on his hands and knees, the journey 
would be rather tedious. The heat was most oppressive; I therefore 
passed quickly upwards, observing several other small statues in 
my way. This temple is called Patal-poree, by the Hindoos, in 
which word some people wish to discover the ancient Palibothra. 
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