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Rh the country. Their tronget hold, however, was the fort of Ganlin, in which they centred all their hopes of ecurity, as it was always conidered to be impregnable. It tands on a rock about two cos in length, and in many places above four hundred feet high, in ome three hundred, but in no ituation les than one hundred-and feet in height The table is entirely urrounded by a rampart of tone, tiling immediately from the edge of,the rock, which in mot parts, is rendered perpendicular. Within the rampart are many fine buildings, large tanks, innumerable wells, and cultivated land.

The only acces to the fort, is by a flight