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Westmacott —Site of Fort Fkdaldh. 
[No. 3, 
The artist lias not altogether failed to grasp some of the ethnic char¬ 
acteristics of the Palamau aborigines. The black men have all receding 
chins and foreheads, and are probably Kharwars. 
Da (id’s flank movement was apparently the only piece of strategy 
employed. Strong as he was in cavalry, he might have easily cut off the 
retreat of the Raja to the hills beyond the Fort; but I dare say his 
intelligence department were at fault. It is noticeable that the imperialists 
did not advance their guns when attacking the second position ; they 
were left at their place and no field artillery was employed. 
I send two photographs of Palamau Fort. 
Note on the site of Fort Fkcldlah , District Dindjpur.—By E. Vesey 
Westmacott, C. S. 
(With a Map.) 
The first indication of the site of Ekdalah, which I communicated in 
my letter published at page 95, Proceedings, As. Soc. Beng., April, 1874, was 
given to me by Mr. Reily, Manager of the Chanchol estate in the district 
of Maldah, who told me that he had come upon a tract of high ground, where 
numerous bricks and old tanks betokened the site of an ancient city, and 
that the people called the name of the place Ekdalah. I took the oppor¬ 
tunity of being at Churamon, in Dfnajpur, to ride over the ground in 
the direction indicated, eastward at a place called Salimpur, or ‘ Chilumpoor,’ 
and Sayyidpur, but my search was unsuccessful. A subsequent study of 
the inch to the mile map showed me a village, called to this day Ekdalah, a 
little to the north-east of the ground I had gone over, east of the river 
Chiramati and five miles, not one, from the 4 Nawabi rastah.’ Doctor 
Buchanan, in his ‘ Account of Dinagepoor,’ published by Mr. Montgomery 
Martin under his own name as part of the second volume of his ‘ Eastern 
India,’ page 640, writes as follows : 
“ About a mile and a quarter west from the Baliya is a very large tank, 
“ called Molan-dighee,” the Tank of the Lotus, “ which is nearly choked 
“ with weeds. The only tradition concerning it is, that it was dug by a 
“ princess—Ranee—and that a miracle was necessary to procure water. 
“ About a mile and a quarter further west is Gor-dighee, Gurh-dighee,” the 
Tank of the Fort, “ the water of which has extended about six hundred yards 
“ north and south, and four hundred yards east and west, and which, of 
“ course, is a Hindoo work. A considerable portion of it has now so far 
“ filled up, that it is cultivated for rice. About twelve hundred yards west 
“ from this tank is another, called Alta Dighee, which extends nearly to the 
