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to the floor and differences of level. The Carpenters’ shop, for instance, 
with its floor of brick on edge over 3 in. of fine concrete laid on 3 in. of brick 
rubbish ; going upwards above this floor, wood ash, and the debris from 
the destroyed roof, then a tile floor on concrete T 5" above the first floor, 
then again over that l"-6" of rubbish, and then a metaled road, that in this 
place ran between two Custom House sheds; then, if I had made my section 
through one of the sheds, its floor of brick on edge over brick flat, and now 
again the floors of the new buildings, of stone pavement on 6 in. of con¬ 
crete or 8 in. of concrete with Portland cement finishing. These two last 
are four feet nine inches above that of the Carpenters’ shed of 1756. Thus 
there are four floors in succession, first that of 1756, then the tile floor, age 
doubtful, then one of 1866, and now the new one of 1883. 
I have incidentally referred to the streets shewn on Orme’s map, 
comparing them with those of to-day. In the extract from Simm’s Map, 
on which I have shewn by a thick dotted line the water edge as shewn 
on Orme’s map, a ghaut will be noticed that does not quite fit in 
with the end of Khoyla Ghaut Street. This non-fit is due I fancy to an 
error in Orme’s map increased by my plotting from a map without a scale. 
1 have, however, adhered closely to what I have measured or scaled, and 
have not cooked my dimensions in order to make them fit in. The angle of 
the street is exactly as at the present time. 
The wide opening in Clive Street opposite the Bonded Ware Houses, 
and the little bend west at the head of Clive Ghaut Street are as exact as 
this small scale could shew them. Church Lane is another accurately fit¬ 
ting bit, and so in fact are numerous others. 
Judging from the Map already referred to, “ the Park,” now Dalhousie 
Square or Lall Diggee, appears to me to have extended itself north a little, 
and the road on the north of it to have been correspondingly narrowed. 
I have shewn on the Plan (Plate X) the place which I conjecture to 
be the un- finished Bavelin, into the ditch of which Holwell says “ the 
dead bodies were next morning thrown.” 
At the time the drainage pipe was put down in Fail-lie Place, Mr. 
Bradford Leslie, then Engineer to the Municipality, noted that they had 
to cut through a pucca ghaut exactly opposite the lane leading up to 
No. 2 Fail-lie Place. It agrees exactly with the ghaut shewn on Orme’s map, 
and also on the perspective sketch from the river side. This is a valuable 
piece of confirmatory evidence of the correctness of this plan and the old 
line of river bank at that date. 
Nothing of interest was found in the excavations save a chain shot 
or two, some 30 or 40 cannon ball of varying sizes, and of malleable iron, 
some almost bullets in size; these were mostly found at the west end of 
the Carpenters’ shop and outside it. The breach end of an old 10 pounder 
