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[ 117 ] 7. Will He Return, by M. Claxton.

The stuffed skin of an alligator, 13 feet long, with girth of 6 feet round about the middle, said to have been shot by Nawab Kumayun Jah at the Kriteswari ; a tortoise shell, with a girth of six feet and a piece of bamboo with a girth of two feet, placed at the inner stairs are among the objects of interest in the Palace.

Among the innumerable treasures of the Palace are some objects presented to Meer Jaffer by the East India Company ( Vide Long's Selections from the Records of the Government, Vol. I., p. 144 et seq).

The most interesting of these are the following:—

In the preservation of the equipments of the Palace and in the collection of articles of varietyrarity [sic], His Highness the Nawab Bahadur of Murshidabad has evinced the greatest interest, books and manuscripts claiming is foremost attention.

Of the buildings within the Killah, those to be permanently maintained are the following:—

1. The Palace including the Sundial with iron railings.