114 K. lloskell Bayne —Notes on the remains of [No 2, 
the whole length of the north curtain, between it and the mud and brick 
wall. I do not know if on the west side it only occurs in the gateway or 
if it continues north and south, 1 do not recollect it to the north towards 
the Sumph, but I found it further south in some gun platforms I have 
yet to describe. These details I have just described I found since the 
completion of the building, and on searching for some information as to 
a wall on which I found myself in doubt when preparing the diagrams for 
this paper. 
In putting in the drain pipe from our latrines I cut through what 
appears to me to have been a sunken gun platform and the commencement 
of a second to the south. There were three steps down into it, plastered with 
splayed edges almost as if new, so perfect was the plaster and the edges. 
The three steps were respectively 6", 8" and 4 inches in one place, the 8" and 
the 4" uniting into one of 12"; the change had been broken away before I 
saw it. The curtain wall had a sunken face in it, thus thinning it to about 
3 feet. This work was all addition as there were plaster faces behind the 
platform work. The outer face of this curtain was in some cases plastered, 
in some only whitewashed. 
I imagine these to be some of the hurried works taken in hand, as 
alluded to by Orme, at the time the fort was assailed. 
I would point out here (shewn on the Plan, PI. X, 0 and PI. XI) the 
verandah foundations opposite this western gate the only place in which 
I have found signs of verandahs. I do not now understand the cross wall 
shewn in my plan opposite the entrance gate. On the east face of this 
verandah wall was a very perfect surface drain, with a second one coming 
into it. I have no record of cutting through this verandah wall when 
putting in the drain already alluded to, so that I presume it stops short 
of the gun platform. This completes my notes of this wall. 
I particularly drew attention to the inner parallel walls behind all the 
curtains, north, east and west, referring to Orine’s description of the fort 
telling us of these inner walls. I have drawn to a small scale, Fig. 5 
Plate XIII, the south-east bastion, reproducing the north-east bastion 
with its stairs to the terrace. My authority for shewing these stairs at this 
bastion I have already cited from Orme. 
From the small map in Orme’s Yol. II, of Calcutta, I make the centre 
gateway to be about 180 feet from the south-east bastion. I have shewn in my 
conjectural plan this central portion as having 94 feet clear width inside and 
100 feet outside. I scale this projecting portion as 10 feet, and Orme tells us 
it had one gun on each flank, for which I have allowed a projection of about 
12 feet, whether more or less, does not affect what I want to draw attention 
to. On the right, so called by Holwell, that is the south, I have put 
the room of the guard allowing a small verandah on the north, of 10 feet 
