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W. Iloey —Set Mahet. 
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The Pakka Kuti, as I found it, seems to me to be a later building, 
or the repaired remnants of a later building, raised on the site of the 
old Hall of the Law, to mark it, and would thus be one of the memorial 
buildings mentioned by the Chinese pilgrims. Its true uses cannot be 
ascertained until all the chambers have been opened. I opened but one, 
that in the heart of the mound. The plan shows a bird’s eye view, and 
the dotted lines mark a tunnel which I carried through the whole 
mound to drain it, and thus preserve it. I built strong masonry arches 
where each wall was cut. The labour of clearing the whole building 
would be great, as its external dimensions, 143 ft. long by 90 ft. wide, 
will show. The most curious feature of the building, as far as I explored 
it, is that in no place did I discover any door or window, and I could 
discern no staircase. 
The Kachcha Kuti is a much more interesting mound. Of its 
character I have no doubt. The plan which I submit gives no idea* 
however, of the main impression which it creates. The outermost wall, 
of which only a portion was exposed, is an ornamental one, with a 
plastered cornice and coping and served to enclose a large building. 
The thick main wall of this building, shown on three sides in the 
plan, is a wall of similar design, which seems to have been carried 
out to a considerable height, and it undoubtedly was built up to support 
an older building, which had fallen into decay. I ascertained the exist¬ 
ence of buried chambers by sinking a shaft at p to a depth of perhaps 
20 ft. I then found that a chamber existed below and it seems to have 
communicated with others. I closed up this opening at p with a 
masonry cap to prevent the ingress of rain. In the passage fg I found 
tiles with a metallic glazing, some green and some blue, which seemed 
to be part of a floor over which a protective wall had been raised. These 
tiles were made of a fine preparation of some white substances, but the 
glazing chipped off readily. The herring-bone lines represent a curious 
slope made of tiles placed on their edges, which may have been 
either a graduated approach to a building or a roof covering a passage 
into one. The long spaces a and b on either side were clearly enclosed 
at a later date. The walls mm and nn were built as an ornamental 
front, and corresponded in style to similar walls mn and nij at the sides. 
They were clearly separate from the other walls mtu and wx and ny 
nz which were built up later. In the enclosure b I found a clay figure 
of a monkey (Plate XXV,d), and a head of an image near it. From the 
character of the internal building, as far as I explored it, being that of 
a private dwelling, as well as from the fact of this being, as I think, 
the dwelling of a person of wealth, as its ornamentation shows, and its 
being built in all round to preserve it, I am inclined to surmise that it 
