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Chap. XIII. consists of a solid shaft of wrought iron, standing 22 feet 6 inches out of the ground and is 5 feet 6 inches in circumference at about 5 feet from its base. When I visited it, the report was that Colonel

216. Iron Pillar at the Kutub, Delhi. From a photograph.

Baird Smith had dug down and found its base 16 feet below the surface. Lieutenant Cole now brings home a report that it is 26 feet deep in the ground. Taking, however, the more moderate