Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

128 ANCIENT CASTLE.

quality to the Roman bricks occasionally dis-
covered in England. At Delhi I have met with
bricks that have been undoubtedly standing- six
or seven centuries ; and at Kannoge, if tradition
speak true, the same articles which were manu-
factured upwards of two thousand years ago, and
which retains the colour of the brightest red,
resemble more the hardest stone than the things
we call bricks of the present day. After the
minutest examination of these relics of ancient
labour, I am disposed to think that the clay
must have been more closely kneaded, and
the bricks longer exposed to the action of fire
than they are by the present mode of manu-
facturing them; and such is their durability,
that they are only broken with the greatest
difficulty.

The killaah was originally a fortified castle,
and is situated near the river Kaullee Nuddie,
a branch or arm of the Ganges, the main
stream of which flows about two miles distant.
During the periodical rains, the Ganges over-
flows its banks, inundates the whole tract
of land intervening between the two rivers,