LOW GHUR. 
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always useless, as the height of the perpendicular rock is too great, 
on every side, to be stormed. Towards the w^est, a very ex- 
traordinary ledge extends several hundred yards in length, by 
about twenty wide. A wall is built along, on each side, to prevent 
accidents : at small distances are houses, inhabited by the guard, 
which we found drawn out to receive us. Though this ledge is 
lower than the main body of the fort, yet it is of sufficient height to 
prevent any attack, the rock being perfectly bare, and perpendicular. 
The whole in shape considerably resembles a tadpole, the fort re- 
presenting the body, and this ledge the tail. From the summit 
the view was very extensive : the sea beyond Bombay appeared to 
the west; inland a chain of hills was visible in every direction, 
whose tops frequently rose into fortified summits, with rocky sides, 
as perpendicular as Low Ghur. The most extraordinary circum- 
stance was the regularity of the strata, and the equal height of the 
rocky sides : were the line continued from one hill to another, 
it W'Ould touch the corresponding parts of similar strata. The 
summits were mostly green, and capable of cultivation. Low 
Ghur has numerous tanks, and several small streams from the 
springs above were falling down the rocks. Esapoor is higher, and 
only a musquet-shot from Low Ghur. Were the former, however, 
in the hands of an enemy, it could do but httle harm, as this place 
very extensive, and is protected from shot by rocks in almost 
every direction. Lieutenant Ambrose had been here before, when 
it was surrendered to ihe British arms. He told us that the quantity 
of ammunition and stores of all kinds was prodigious. 
Dondoe Punt was the person who had been intrusted with the 
custody of the fort by Nana Furnese,and refused, after his death, to 
