1 GENERAL VENTURA. 145 -
2 of about twenty feet, ornamented with pilasters,
3 &c., in the same manner as the upper one. These
4 pilasters aré plain; but well proportioned, and
5 appear only to have been brought to light since
6 General Ventura dug to the bottom, in order to
7 reach thé vault in the centre of the building.
8 He likewise cleared away the ruinous ‘parts
9 on the top of the tope, and discovered a well
10 of about ten feet square, which is regularly
11 built of squared stones, and looks now about
12 fifteen:or eighteen feet deep. General’ Ventura
13 penetrated through the bottom of the shaft to
14 satisfy himself that no further relics than those.
15 which he had found there were forthcoming.*
16 The tradition at Rawat is, that on the out-
17 side of the hemisphere there was a flight of
18 steps leading to the top, and that ‘on it Manak
19 the king used to review his troops. The out-
20 side wall of masonry has nearly all fallen off or
21 been torn away, and much of the upper portion
22 has been removed, which has destroyed the
23 " They were afterwards offered to Sir Claude Wade,
24 who forwarded them, in the General’s name, to the Secre-
25 tary to the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, the late lamented
26 J. Prinsep, Esq.
27 H