Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1893

As regards the buildings on the north side of the fort mentioned in Simson's letter of 25th February 1756 I conjecture that.p are the lodgings occupied by the young gentlemen in the Company's service and that x the central building in the north division of the for: is the armoury. [...] These measurments and the general appearance of the walls convinced me that the thick wall on the east was the curtain wall of the fort that the wall on the west was the wall parallel to the curtain built for the purpose of containing the chambers running along that side of the fort and that the smaller plastered chamber was a strong-room or godown. [...] I was however for a long time baffled in my efforts to prove the truth of the tradition owing to the fact that the actual distances between the lines of the arches of the acade and the corner of the north-east wing of the factory which had been discovered could not be made to agree with the distances shown in the plan between that corner and the lines of arches along the south curtain. [...] It was only after a good deal of excavation that the true position of the south curtain was established and it became evident that the south face of the old arcade is part of the first line of arches within the curtain that the pillars in the centre of the arcade belong to the second line of arches and the north side of the arcade is on the alignment of the third and inei.most line of arches [...] The north sido of the waggon-shed e i is a modern wall constructed on the alignment of the third arcade wall of the old fort D. E.; but the two lines of arches e i esis (of which the first e i forms the south face of the shed and the second e2ii runs down its centre) are manifestly portions of the first and second lines of arches D F„ D F which ran parallel to the south curtain of the old fo