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C. R. Wilson — Topography of Old Fort William. [No. 2, 
Translation. 
On Monday the 9th of the Mithuna, dark half Sankranti in the 
4th anka of the victorious reign of the warrior Kapilesvara Dova 
Maharaja, at camp Kritibas during the inner puja leisure, it was 
ordered in the presence of Raiguru Basu Mahapatra and Bhuvanesvara 
Mahapatra who caused (this) to be inscribed : — All the kings in my 
Orissa kingdom should work for the good of the (paramount) sovereign, 
should keep virtuous ways, should not remain in bad ways. If they 
act badly towards the sovereign, they will be expelled from the kingdom 
and all their property confiscated. 
Note. 
These two inscriptions are on the right jamb of the doorway leading 
to the porch of the Bara Deul at Bhuvanesvara. They are inscribed just 
in the centre at a man’s height. No corresponding inscriptions are to 
be found on the left jamb. 
The general remarks made in the Jagannatha inscriptions apply, 
mutatis mutandis , to these also. The dates do not seem correct. The 
tithis of the years in question do not fall on the week-days stated. 
The Topography of Old Fort William. — -By C. R. Wilson, M. A. 
In the present paper I propose to lay before the Society the results 
of certain excavations made during the last four months of the year 1891 
and the first four months of the year 1892, on the site of old Port 
William, Calcutta. 
These are not the first excavations which have been made at this 
spot. In 1883 Mr. R. R. Bayne, while erecting the East India Railway 
Offices in Fairlie Place, came across considerable portions of the old fort 
walls. He reported his discoveries to the Society in a paper which will 
be found in the Journal for 1883, Vol. LII, Part I, No. II. 
The general position of the old fort with its adjacent warehouses is 
well-known. It stood on the ground now occupied by the General Post 
Office, the New Government Offices, the Custom House, and the East 
India Railway House. The warehouses built along the south side of 
the fort skirted Khoila Ghat Street. The north side was in Fairlie 
Place. The east front looked out on Clive Street and Dalhousie Square. 
Behind it was the river which then flowed further east than at present. 
The fort was in shape an irregular tetragon. Its walls were built 
of small thin bricks strongly cemented together. 
According to Orme, “ its sides, to the east 
and west extended 210 yards, the southern side 130, and the northern 
The old Fort. 
