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180 the roofs, floors, and pillars of the. palace, were formed of it; and even the very quares and paages were paved with it. Neither glas, iron, brick, or other materials for building, were introduced here, until the fort came into the poeion, of the Englih The lightet walls of this great pile are, at leat, five feet thick. There are, ome good houes about it, built in the Indian tyle, that make a handome appearance. Nothing can be more triking, nothing can diplay a more ublime air of grandeur, the lofty gateways here, which reemble in ome manner, the old triumphal arches of the Romans.

The country and climate of habad,