118 R. R. Bayne— Notes on the remains of Old Fort William. [No. 2, 
gun, and the top end and ring of an old anchor stock was all that was turned 
up. 
In conclusion, I would here note a record I have made of the build¬ 
ing, and of the extreme point of the north-east bastion (the salient as it is 
termed). 
Whilst rounding off the corner of our boundary wall so as to ease the 
foot traffic passing it, I have secured the little bit of triangular land be¬ 
longing to the building by paving it, and on this paving I have had cut, 
in the northern line of the bastion face and on the eastern edge, a line 
parallel to the eastern face but two feet removed within it, as the actual line 
lies below the foot path and off the East Indian Railway land. 
I would have liked to have placed a small tablet here to record one 
fixed point of the old fort, but as I was spending money belonging to 
the Government of Bengal, I could not do it. The stone to carry a tablet 
is inserted, ready if at any time the money to pay for the tablet is 
forthcoming. My idea was a brass plate with an engraving on it of the 
outline of the fort and a short legend of explanation. 
I would solicit permission to make a few excavations here and there 
in the Custom House compound. Digging a few holes does not cost very 
much, and with the north portion of the fort and lines to start with, 
the exact spots could be indicated without much guess work or hunting for 
them. 
I think an excavation (I don’t ask for it) at a place measured from the 
point of the central or east gate drawn east, and about 100 feet east of 
the east curtain would find the burial place of the victims of the night of 
June 20th, 1756. 
I do not know if any records were kept of what was found during the 
building of the Post Office north-east corner, I fear none. It was stated 
that when the Port Commissioners offices were built, some of the founda¬ 
tions then uncovered were those of the fort. A glance at Simms Map, 
now that we have the north curtain fixed, will shew that this cannot 
have been the case, as this site in 1756 lay in the river or at least 
beyond the river wall of the fort, and in the mud banks. 
In the excavation for the buildings now going on in Kovla Ghaut 
Street, the river wall shewn in Orme’s map should have been found just 
about here, but as I have found this river wall to be only a small wall, 
2'.6" thick, it would probably escape detection amongst such a maze 
of walls, and of so many ages. I was repeatedly over these excavations 
to see if anything of interest was to be found. 
One wall I found, a battering wall 2'TO" thick, 2 ,- 3" at an upper point, 
but it was too far inland to be the river wall. The character of the work, 
however, was the same as that found in the inner walls of the Port, partly 
