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four Towers, I was obliged to turn to the left, and entered into a Meidan^ 
where there is another Street that led me to the Town-Gate, which Hook- 
ed for. Having adjufted my mealures,'^! found that Bagnagar was five 
thoufand fix hundred and fifty Paces in length, to wit, two thoufand four 
hundred and fifty from the Bridge to the Towers , and from thence, 
thmn^hiht Meidan to the Gate which leads to Mafulipata», three thoufand 
two hundred Paces. There is alfo beyond chat Gate, a Suburbs eleven 
hundred Paces long. 
There are feveral Meidans or Publick places in this Town, but the faireft ^he Meidan 
is that before the Kings Palace : It hath to the Ealt and Weft two great Di- of BagLglr, 
vans very deep in the Ground, the Roof whereof being of Carpenters work, 
israifed five Fathom high, upon four Wooden Pillars-, this Roof is flat, 
and hath Balifters of Stone caft over Arch-v/ays, with Turrets at the cor- 
ners. Thefe two Divans ferve for Tribunals to the Cofo«<j/, whofe Priions 
are at the bottom of thefe Divans, each of them having a Bafon of Water 
before them. The like Balifters go round the Terrafs-walks of the place ; 
The Royal Palace is to the North of it, and there is a Portico over againft 
it, where the Muiicians come feveral times a day to play upon their Inftru- 
ments, when the King is in Town. 
In the middle of this place, and in fight of the Royal- Palace, there is 
a Wall built, three Foot thick, and fix Fathom in height and length, for ^^8^jj"gsof 
the fighting of Elephants, and that Wall is betwixt them, when they ex- 
cite them to fight -, but fo loon as thev are wrought up to a rage, they quick- 
ly throw down the W all. The ordinary Houfes there, are not above two 
Fathom high ^ they raife them no higher, that they may have the frefli 
Air during the heats, and moft part of them are only of Earth ; but the 
Houfes of Perfons of Quality are pretty enough. 
The Palace which is tHree hundred and fourfcorc Paces in length, takes 
up not only one of the fides of the Place , but is continued to the four ^^'^^^ °^ 
Towers, where it terminates in a very loftly Pavillion. The Walls of 
it which are built of great Stones, have at certain diftances half Towers, 
and there are many Windows towards the place, with an open Gallery to 
fee the ftiews. They fay it is verypleafant within, and that the Water 
rifes to the higheft Appartments : The Refervatory of that Water, Vfhich 
is brought a great way off, is in the top of the four Towers, from whence it 
is conveyed into the Houfe by Pipes. No Man enters into this Palace, 
but by an exprefs Order from the King,who grants it but feldom -, nay, com- 
monly no body comes near it, and in the place there is a circuit ftaked out, 
that muft not be paffed over. There is another fquare Meidan in this Town, 
where many great Men have well built Houfes. The Carvanferas are gene- 
rally all handfome ,and the moft efteemed is that which is called Nimet-uUa 
in the great Street oppofite to the Kings Garden : It is a fpacious fquare, 
and the Court of it is adorned with feveral Trees of different kinds, and 
a large Bafon where the Mahometans performe their Ablutions. 
That which is called the four Towers, is a fquare building, of which The four Tow? 
each face is ten Fathom broad, and about feven high : It is opened in the 
four fides, by four Arches, four^r five Fathom high, and four Fathom 
wide, and even^ one of thefe Arches fronts a Street, of the fame breadth 
as the Arch. There are two Galleries in it, one over another, and over 
all a Terrafs that ferves for a Roof, bordered with a Stone-Balcony \ and 
at each corner of that Building, a Décagone Tower about ten Fathom high^ 
and each Tower hath four Galleries, with little Arches on the outfide -, 
the whole Building being adorned with Rofes and Feftons pretty well cut : 
It is vaulted underneath, and appears like a Dome, which has in the infide 
all round Balifters of Stone, pierced and open as the Galleries in the outfide, 
and there are feveral Doors in the Walls to enter at. Under this Dome 
there is a large Table placed upon a Divan, raifed feven or eight Foot 
from the Ground, with fteps to go up to it. All the Galleries of that 
Building, ferve to make the Water mount up, rhat fo being afterwards 
conveyed to the Kings Palace, it might reach the higheft Apipartments. 
Nothmg in that Town fecms fo lovely as the outfide of that Building, and 
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