This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...walls of this outer line were not faced with burnt brick, as no portions now remain; but it seems more probable that they were so faced, and that the burnt bricks have been gradually removed to build the houses in the present town. There are two great openings, one on the east and the other on the south, which are now ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...walls of this outer line were not faced with burnt brick, as no portions now remain; but it seems more probable that they were so faced, and that the burnt bricks have been gradually removed to build the houses in the present town. There are two great openings, one on the east and the other on the south, which are now used as entrances, and which the people say were the gates of the fort. There would appear also to have been a third gate at the north-west corner, where there is at present a deep channel. To the east there is a large sheet of water abounding in fish. It looks very much like the bed of an old branch of the Chenab; but it is no doubt partly artificial, and was the source from whence the many millions of sun-dried bricks were obtained for raising the mass of the fort. It is remarkable that there are no old brick kilns at Shorkot, unless the mounds to the south, which are now covered with Muhammadan tombs, were originally kilns, and not the ruins of the southern half of the city. I have noticed the absence of kiln-mounds at other ancient places, such as Harapa and Bavanni, from which I infer that the mass of the houses at all these places must have been made of sun-dried bricks. At Multan, as well as at Lahor and Agra, the number of lofty brick kilns girdling the city is one of the most striking features on approaching the place, and on entering it their number is satisfactorily accounted for by finding that nearly all the houses are built of burnt bricks. The relative importance of Multan and Shorkot may be fairly judged by this striking evidence of the superior wealth that was lavished on the buildings of Multan. 1 See Plate XXIX for a plan of the fort. VOL. V. N i Travels into Bokhara, III, 131. Shorkot was visited by Burnes, in 1831, on his ...
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