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1893.] C. R. Wilson — Topography of old Fort William. 
tlie Church and Hospital ; all these buildings are in constant use, 
they cannot be well spared, and it would be difficult to supply their 
place immediately. 11 [He repeats this drawback to Scott’s plan in 
another part.] Before the building of the Colonel’s plan can be carried 
on there must be pulled down immediately all the north side of 
the Factory, the Church, Hospital, godowns of Mr. McGuire’s house, • 
the Dockyard, and godowns of the Company’s house. Whereas in 
order to go on with building the Square nothing need be pulled down 
but the outhouses of the Company’s House and a small part of north- 
east corner of present Fort. 
Simson’s suggestion was ‘ to save most of these buildings and to 
erect a square fort (as by the accompanying plan) which runs from the 
north side of the present fort round the Church through the Tank 
towards the horse’s Stables and thence down to the waterside between Mr. 
Amiott’s house and that of the Company.’ 18 
There is only one allusion to be found in Simson’s letter to the Fort 
river-bastions. ‘ The gun wharf or low battery on the river side which 
is not flanked by any fire from the Fort is proposed to be left in its 
present situation, and as its wall projects forward from the angle of the 
north-western bastion towards the river, it prevents the face of that bas- 
tion from being flanked. Neither is the face of the south western bastion 
towards the river flanked, the line of its face running without side the 
opposite flank.’ 
I may now pass on to describe Wells’s plan of the fort to which fre- 
quent allusion has been made in the foregoing 
Wells’s plan of the extracts and of which I give a facsimile (Plate 
fort ' VI). The plan is preserved in the British Mu- 
seum having found its way there from the King’s library. It is endorsed 
“ No. 11 Duplicate Plan of Fort William and part of Calcutta by Wm. 
Wells under Col. Scott drawn in 1753 ” ; and again in another part.— “Re- 
ceived per Dunington, 10th October 1754.” The object of the plan is to 
show the new fort which Col. Scott projected in 1753, but it incidentally 
shows the old fort in considerable detail, the scale being 100 ft. = 1 in. 
Looking at the plan we recognise at once the irregular tetragon with its 
four bastions, (a, /?, y, 8, ) each having embrasures for ten guns. The north 
curtain here measures 210 ft., the south curtain 356 ft., the east 546, the 
west 560. The fort has throe gates, c the east gate, £ the main south river 
H See Long’s Selections No. 165. By an unfortunate misprint, “ north side of 
the factory” has been converted into “sbuth side” in the Selections. 
12 Then the Company’s Stables were beyond, i. e., east of, the Hospital, and 
Amiott’s house was just south of Douglas’. H. E. B. 
