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military architecture ; and which was deflroyed by his fon, after he found how littleit was fitted to refill Britifh valour. The entrance toward the petta, or town, is avery handfome building of cut granite, and was probably confidered by the defendersas the ftrongefl part of the works. It certainly would have been a very difficultmatter to have forced a way through all the various gateways in this entrance; as thetroops, after having forced one gate, would have been expofed to a fire from allquarters before they could have reached another, But there are no ditches betweenthe different gates, nor even without the outer one ; and, if the enemy obtained pof-feffion of the works above the firft gateway, they had a ready communication with allthe others ; as our troops found when they ftormed the place, which they did at thispart of the works. In the buildings of this entrance is a dungeon, amply providedwith all the horrors that ufually attend fuch places.
The garrifon contained well-conftrufted magazines, and many huts for the accom-modation of the troops ; but no good building, except the mahal or palace. Althoughthis is compofed of mud, it is not without fome degree of magnificence. On theupper flory it contains four halls, each comprifing two balconies of flate for thePrince, and each balcony faces a different cutchery, or court for giving audience. Noperfons, except a few trufty guards, were admitted into the hall with the Sultan : butat each end of the court was erefted a balcony for the officers of the higheft rank.The inferior officers occupied a hall under the balcony of the Prince, open in front,and fupported by columns as high as the roof of the upper flory. The populacewere admitted into the open court, in which there were fountains for cooling the air.At each end of the halls are private apartments, fmall, mean, and inconvenient. Thepublic rooms are neatly painted, and ornamented with falfe gilding. The offices aremean ; and the bath confills of a fmall room, in which a perfon may fit, and havewater poured over him. The fame bath feems to have ferved both the Prince andhis women, as it communicates with their apartments by a fmall court, which containsthe huts that ferved for kitchens, and for lodging the female Haves. There weretwo apartments for the ladies. One, for the principal wife, contains a cutchery,where, like the Sultan fhe gave audience to the concubines, and to the ladies of theMuffulman chiefs. The other apartment belonged to the concubines. It is a fquarecourt, having at two of the fides a corridor, under which the women fat at their mealsand amufements. Behind the corridor are their fleeping rooms, which are mean, anddark, being about twelve feet fquare, and without any air or light, but what isadmitted by the door, or in some by a hole about a foot wide. Lownefs of roof is afault prevailing over the whole ftructure. Before the palace is a large fquare courtfronted by the nobat khana, or flation for the band of mufic, and furrounded by afine corridor. The palace lately ferved the officers of a European regiment forquarters, while the privates were lodged in the corridor.
In the centre of the fort are flill vifible the ruins of the mud wall, thatfurrounded the fmall village, which occupied the place before Hyder founded thecity.
nth May.—I vifxted the gardens made by the late Muffulman Princes, Hyder andTippoo . They are extenfive, and divided into fquare plots feparated by walks, thefides of which are ornamented with fine cyprefs trees. The plots are filled with fruittrees, and pot-herbs. The Muffulman fafhion is to have a feparate piece of groundallotted for each kind of plant. Thus one plot is entirely filled with rofe trees,another with pomegranates, and' fo forth. The walks are not gravelled, and the cul-tivation of the whole is rather llovenly ; but the people fay, that formerly the gardens
were