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 22 a Mr Forbss stopped at Nurrah, a large rained town,' which had been plundere and burnt by the Mahrattas,The prin, house had beloinged to an opulen man, who emigrated during the war and died in a distant country. M Forbes was privately informed, that under one of the towers there was a seeret cell, formed to contain his treasure : thd information could not he doubted, besause if came from the mason who constructed the cell. Accord- ingly the man conducted him through se- veral spacious courts and appartments,to a dark closet in a tower : the room was about eight feet square, being the whole size of the interior of the tower and it was some stories above the place where the treasure was said to be deposited. In the floor there was a hole large enough for a slender person to pass throdgh they enlarged it, and sent down two men by a ladder. After several feet, they came to another floor, composed in like manner of bricks and, and here also was a similar aperture; Which was also enlarged, torches were procured, and from their light, Mr Forbes perceive'd from the upper apartment a dungeon of great depth from below, as the mason had described. He desired the men ts descend and search for the treasure; bit they refused, declaring that where ever money was concealed