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a square base, five yards high, then an octagonal structure eight yards high. (See illustration.)

" Outside the southwest gate an ancient bridge is still in use, as caravans from Mashad come through the old city of Tus. This bridge has eight arches, each four and one-half yards wide. The name of the stream is the Kashf Rud.

" The fortress itself is interesting; it is sur rounded by a moat and a wall, within which lies a large courtyard and the high approach to the fort it self. At present we could walk around the wall and approach the fort by a passage in the rear. In the courtyard they are now raising the best water melons we have eaten in Persia. Four gigantic corner fragments of the fort are now standing. In the midst of the debris of bricks within these old walls we found interesting fragments of pottery."

In another letter from Mashad, Persia, dated January 17, 1917, the Rev. Dwight M. Donaldson writes: " This week I made another trip to Tus, carefully examining again the tombstone of Ghazali. As I wrote you before, the stone has been badly worn and in addition to that has been mutilated. However, on the point of doubt as to whether the stone photographed was really the one marking Mohammed Al-Ghazali’s tomb, or the tomb of another Ahmad Al-Ghazali, I can now say that I believe it is the tomb of Abu Hamed ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed Al Ghazali, for the reason that we can clearly read

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