The mosque, indeed, is still kept up, and deserves to be so; but the palace of Tippoo has fallen into utter ruin.

I saw, however, with no small interest, the airholes of the dungeon in which the English prisoners were confined, and the water-gate leading down to the river where the body of Tippoo was found still warm by the Duke of Wellington, then Colonel Wellesley.

The exact spot through which the English soldiers fought their way against desperate disadvantages into the fort is still perfectly discernible.

But, though only thirty-five years have elapsed since the fall of the city, the palace is in the condition of Tintern Abbey and Melrose Abbey.

The courts, which bear a great resemblance to those of the Oxford Colleges, are completely overrun with weeds and flowers.