stands the keep, about fifty feet in height and a hundred
and twenty wide, of several storeys, and irregularly
bastioned, or rather buttressed. The fort lies square
to the points of the compass, each side of the parapet
being about n o yards in length. The peculiar features
in its construction conclusively prove that the place
Phari Jong. The hole in the wall afterwards increased in size.
was built in unreasoning imitation of some European
model, for the little machicolated galleries which be-
straddle the corners of the outer bastions are entirely
useless. Nothing could be dropped from them, as they
dominate precisely the points at which no sane commander
would deliver an attack. Moreover, they are of
the flimsiest construction, and, at present at any rate,
