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 then ran along the Chandni Chouk, to about where the Lahore Gate was afterwards built ; there could hardly have been houses to the north of this street, for most of that part is open, even to this day. The limiting line then trended south, between the Kadam Sharif and the later walls. This part of the city was probably rather sparsely inhabited, up to the great ravine ; beyond that there was a thickly populated portion, which lay between the present city walls and the Purana Kila. But round the Ridge there was a considerable suburb, adjoining the hunting-park of the emperor, which was surrounded by a high wall, of which no trace remains.

Tradition says that the channel through the Faiz Bazar formed a part of the canal of Firoze Shah, which he made to bring water into Delhi, but its further course we cannot trace. The canal of Ali Mardan Khan, which has been frequently mentioned, was a later one, and an extension of Firoze Shah's canal to Hissar.

It seems probable that the city of Firoze Shah had no walls ; on the riverside, outside the Kotila, there was no necessity for one, and Shah Jahan did not build a wall on that side of his later city in 1648. The remains of the '* Khuni Darwaza," in the Chandni Chouk, may perhaps indicate an old gate, but this is very doubtful.