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[No. 2, 
R. Roskell Bayne —Notes on the remains of 
the floor level of the new building. On a corner of the plaster in the pas¬ 
sage way behind the bastion north face was a bench mark, consisting 
of an inverted arrow-head, in black on the white plaster. 
Of the east curtain wall we saw but little, only where we cut through 
it with our cross walls, and it began to be a matter of regret whenever we 
had to cut through it, it was such a labour and toil and caused such delay. 
The soil to the north curtain wall appeared to have been but little 
disturbed, and so far qs I noted, to keep about the level of the plaster 
noted in the north-east bastion. Unfortunately a little north of this wall 
there had been a wall of the Custom House sheds that had disturbed the soil, 
but as a rule the level seemed, as far as my observation went pretty regular. 
On the east curtain wall there had been little or no disturbance, the soil was 
often quite undisturbed, and only here and there were potsherds in it. 
I could not make much of the north-west bastion ; it was nothing like 
so regularly built, and had not the older inner square tower (unless the two 
square walls shewn on my plan belonged to it), there was no ramp or stair to 
the roof that I noted, and altogether it was very confused, and we were push¬ 
ing on with concrete and walls, that there was no time to wait until dis¬ 
jointed fragments could be read and understood. Here I find at least that 
the old walls of the north and west curtains met with a small rounded corner, 
as the older plaster was still on the walls where the newer work butted it. 
This bastion appears to me to have been of very much smaller size. Added 
to all this 1 had not the opportunity of exposing the salient, as I had done 
in the north-east one. 
As already stated the east and west curtain walls I have traced for 140 
feet south. 
In one place in the east wall I found, what appeared to me to be a sill 
of a door and a plastered jamb, but a Custom House wall had gone through 
the old wall about here, and so obliterated it that I could not make 
certain of it. On the north curtain wall there was neither break nor 
opening. 
My next discovery of interest was a shed that had evidently been built 
an open one, and afterwards enclosed. It was 90 feet long by 40 feet wide, 
built parallel to the north curtain wall with a row of 8 piers down the centre, 
just such a flat-roofed godown on brick piers as is to be found all over 
Calcutta to-day. Down the centre face of each pier had been a sunk water 
channel, all were visible at floor line and the shallow drain on the north 
side into which they ran was perfect. The spaces between the columns 
on the faces had been filled in, thus turning an open into a closed shed. 
The floor of this shed was brick on edge, and all over the floor in some 
places 1^, in others up to 8 or 9 inches in thickness was burnt wood ash, 
the floor of the godown in places where I had to cut through it bearing 
