They put thatch over the mud walls during the rains to preserve them.

The fortifications and dwelling-houses together are said to have cost the family above ten lacs of rupees.

There are some fourteen old guns in the fort.

Though it would be difficult to shell a garrison out of a fort of this extent, it would not be difficult to take it.

No garrison, sufficient to defend all parts of so extended a wall, could be maintained by the holder; and it would be easy to fill the ditch and scale the walls.