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E. Eoskell Bayne —Notes on the remains of [No. 2, 
level of the floors of the godowns was about 1‘0" above this. The floor of 
the new building, to which I shall have to refer in a comparison of levels, 
is 15 feet above my datum or 103'00. 
In starting the setting out of my foundations I selected as a commence¬ 
ment the longest straight wall; it is a wall 220 feet long. Before we had 
been at work excavating a day, I might almost say a few hours, we 
found we were on an old wall, the full length of our proposed wall, and 
almost in exact alignment with it and 4 feet thick. 
Knowing as I did that I was in the locality of old Fort William, I 
inferred that I was on the wall or one of the walls of the Fort, and I proceeded 
at once to dig down at its side in three or four places in order to see how 
far it went down and what it was like. I found it went down nearly two 
feet below the level at which it had been decided our walls and concrete 
were to go, and as it was a good straight solid wall with a fair base, it 
was decided to build on it in place of pulling it up. Its base being smaller 
than our calculated areas and pressures, it has a greater load than the one 
ton to the foot of the other walls ; its load is tons, but its solidity 
has warranted the use made of it, and it saved some two or three 
thousand Bupees. In addition the wall, buried though it be, we know it 
to be there, it has not been annihilated. 
In setting out this 220 feet wall ,of the new building, I had been 
guided by the curb stone of the footpath of Fairlie Place, and had laid out 
my wall parallel to it. I now found, (after it had been settled to make 
use of the wall), that it was 9 in. in its length out of parallel with the curb, so 
in order to utilize the wall, I had to throw my centre line longitudinally 
westward to the north and eastward to the south on a centre point 
9 in. each way, and my new wall then lay exactly over the centre of the 
wall that proved to be the north curtain of old Fort William. I mention 
this in detail, as I wish to call attention to the very close alignment of 
streets of to-day with those shewn on the small Map that accompanies Orme’s 
Yol. II,already referred to. The plan is headed—“ Plan for the intelligence 
of the Military Operations in Calcutta when attacked and taken by Seeraj- 
ul Dowleh, 1756”—I shall have occasion later on to call attention to this 
close adherence to old lines of streets, this case I think a very remarkable 
one. 
So soon as I had satisfied myself that this wall was a part of the old 
Fort, I narrowly watched the excavations following it and began to keep a 
careful record of the walls as they were exposed. Immediately following 
this discovery of the north curtain wall, I found we were on some very heavy 
and closely built walls that soon proclaimed themselves in their raking 
lines as the flanks and faces of a bastion. As far as I possibly could, 
without delaying my work, I had the earth from between the walls 
