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1883.] portions of Old Fort William. 
is a particularly accurate survey shewing the buildings as they stood in 
1847, and over it I have shewn the fort in a thick outline, following Orme’s 
measurements for the south curtain and the length of the east and west 
sides. The measurements taken by me comprised the whole of the north 
east bastion, a portion of the north west sufficient to determine its junction 
with the curtains, all the north curtain with about 150 feet of each of the 
east and west curtains. All these dimensions I have accurately taken, and 
with them and Orme’s figures, I have laid out the east the west and also the 
south sides. 
Measurements made on this Map near the north west bastion at its 
junction with the curtain wall to the river are as follows : water line in 1756 
about 70 feet, in 1847-49, 425 feet, to Jetty edge of to-day, 1882, very near¬ 
ly 800 feet. They serve to shew how the river bank has been pushed west. 
The second or larger scale Plan, Plate XI, that I have prepared, shews 
the outline of the buildings newly ei’ected. The walls which are tinted 
black are the walls and bastions of the first erected fort; whether the 
small inner square of the north west corner should be shewn as belong¬ 
ing to the old Fort, I cannot now say as I failed to note if the work 
butted or bonded into the curtains. The lighter tint shews the bastions 
erected after the square towers, with faces, flanks and salient. The next 
lighter tint shews some inner walls, .always in brickwork in mud, and run¬ 
ning parallel to the curtains, and about 13 to 14 feet within them. Occa¬ 
sionally I find a cross wall, but I have failed to note them all, or I have 
missed them. 
I have also shewn on this plan such drains as I found. The regular¬ 
ly formed building in the centre, it will be seen, I have called the Carpen¬ 
ter’s shop. The small diagrams to a larger scale are the sections of walls, 
Plates XII and XIII, drains etc. 
The whole of the dimensions recorded were made by myself in order 
to ensure a faithful record of what I found. 
The small perspective sketch,Plate XIV,has been made from the measured 
plan and filled in from a little pencil sketch made in my note book at the 
time ; at no period of the excavation was it laid as completely bare as is here 
shewn, I was hurrying on with the work of building the Company’s offices 
and had no time to stop to expose the whole at a time. 
I will now proceed to recount to you what I found, as nearly as I can, 
in the order in which I found the works shewn on my plans. 
On January 2nd, 1880, I opened the ground on which the East India 
Railway Company’s offices are built. It had just been cleared to floor level 
of some Custom House sheds built at various periods, some I believe as 
recently as 1866. I took the curb level at the junction of Clive Street 
and Fairlie Place as my datum for levels, calling it 10T5. The general 
