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:\n aquMiict or canal «kteuds in a
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iMntce towards the ifi&M*}:■ distun»
>f at least a
Milo, ft is an exceedingly massive wort
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swo walls raised perhaps fifteen feet ah«w t SI ■ a level of
plain, and built of very large b!i»|# N
The intervening 'space is filled with earth, \ p«W.nfc.
■■;.■ «mall conduit, a foot or so wide, brings all the;Water
ifpfeh is required for the use of the inhabitants of Iskardo;
v rv large quantity might be conveyed along the
aqueduct, tHii ips ii'Oi'tyli; id strong and substantial that
.¿very little repaar w ooo3 lie requisite. to restore it to its
■ i t t aqf e oi the little stream which joins the Indus to
the east of the rock of Iskardo, and is separated by a
hollow from the palace and the principal part of the village,
It fe built of unburnt brick, and is extremely
ro shape, with rounded bastions at the angles.
'The feyyteiil fif Iskardo are very ranch scattered over a
large # # # c f surface, so that there is no appearance of
a tow n ; vv*r is the population in the ■
hourhovd of the rock so extensive as thaï • df ni khe
fcore remote villages in the valley, and especiall y of iK >«*?
,s-the banks of .thé Shigar river :
• ova ted. Many of #isl however, - arc
jKÉÏi good/ being often of two «tories, and built of un-
yyqiint bricks in a frani€^*y=rk: *4 ‘wood. .Latticed windows,
¡¡P iW with paper or f-n . 1 *i. «if mica, are also.com-
The roofs are a i f e , rfid covered with mud