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1883.] portions of Old Fort William. 
Since the completion of the building a man hole has been sunk over this 
culvert, 45 feet to the west of the curtain, and a Tangye Engine has now 
drawn for 21 months about 10,000 gallons of water a day from it. At a 
point, 30 feet beyond this well and to the west, is an iron grating, so I have 
been told by the coolies who have been into the drain to clean it out. The 
culvert falls about 15 inches in 30 feet from the well to the grating. 
The old Sumph was filled in on the completion of the work and not 
destroyed. 
The water is clearly river water as a green vegetation grows over it 
in the hot weather, precisely similar to a vegetation growing over the Chand 
Pal water in an adjoining tank pumped direct from the River, so that 
there is still existing some communication or filtration. 
To continue my account of the west wall, at 55 feet from the flank 
wall of the bastion I found one jamb of a doorway in a wall 6 feet thick. 
This extra thickness of wall I could not understand at first, but on consi¬ 
deration I could see that the wall had been thickened on account of the door 
opening, and on looking for the other jamb I found a Custom House wall 
had passed through and destroyed it. I then looked for and found the 
extent of the thickened wall, which I found to be 16 feet wide, leaving an 
opening of 8'-4." There is a change of level in the pavement, inside and 
out, in this door opening ; they both have been additions on the date of the 
wall as the plaster jambs go below both floors. On finding this door in 
the curtain wall I dug west, following the pavement and looking for the 
rampart wall which I found at 25 feet distance. I looked for this, guided 
by the Panorama of Calcutta in Orme’s Vol. II. Again referring to his 
plan, I could see that I was not at the limit of the ground west of the curtain, 
so I continued my searching west, until at 45 feet from the curtain wall I 
found a second wall 2 , 6" thick and parallel with the first and second 
walls ; this I take to be the River or Quay wall. The doorway of the 
rampart wall measures 7'T" wide, it has a stone sill in the opening, and 
here again the paving has been added since the door was originally built, 
as the plaster jambs and step go behind and below the pavement. These 
doors are the River side entrances alluded to by Holwell in his letter of 
November 30th, 1756 in which he states that “ The Suba from his litter 
returned my salaam,” this was on his resigning his sword “ and moved 
round to the northward and entered the fort by the small western gate.” 
These two outer walls I have found again further south. The entire space, 
so far as I have found it between the curtain wall and the next wall west, is 
paved with a brick on edge, a good large 10 inch brick well burnt, laid 
in sand or soorkey on a brick flat which is laid on 2 or 3 inches of burnt 
wood ash, the whole forming a good level well laid floor. In places at a 
lower level of 4£ I find this floor again inside the curtain wall. I found it 
