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now only a plantation of babul trees to mark the site of the former garden.
This road leads to the Collector's bungalow and so on to the city and on the west
of it is the present civil station. On the South-west, commencing from the old
race course is an extensive Government koorun or bir for grass which is said to
cover an area of 500 acres. The station is very bare, the soil being in places
not more than 2 inches deep, and the only trees in it are those planted along the
roads except in the valley of the Moti Bagh Talao where the garden from which
the tank derives its name is situated and where there are many magnificent
tamarind, mango and peepul trees. Immediately below the embankment of the
tank the ground is marshy and swampy, and the rank sedgy rushes that grow
here so luxuriantly show that this condition is perennial.

       4. The Officers' houses are situated on the ridge immediately above the
Moti Talao and the regimental lines occupy the parallelogram towards the east.
These have been built on the highest part of the Cantonment and the site is in
this respect a desirable one, as there is a good fall from it on the North, South
and West and the country is open all round.

       5. The strength of the 19th Regiment which now occupy the lines is as
under—

and the population including women and children is shown below:—

       6. The lines face North and South and consist of 32 blocks of tiled
pendalls divided into two by a central street 150 feet broad. Each division
contains 8 rows of two blocks of pendalls and on either flank of each row is a
Native officer's house. Each block contains 48 rooms which are placed back to
back so that 24 rooms have a northerly and the remaining a southerly aspect.
The size of a married sepoy's room is said to be 11' 6'' x 17' and that of a single
man's room is 10' 6" X 17'. These figures include the verandahs. The walls are
built of mud and the external ones have a few holes made in them which how-
ever were seen to have been almost invariably closed. The roofs are partly
single and partly double tiled. The plinths vary from 1½ feet to 3 feet in height
and the height to the ridge is 15 feet and that of the front wall is 11 feet whilst
the verandah wall is only 6 feet in height. The doorways measure 5' 6'. The
cubic space for a married sepoy is stated to amount to 2,346 cubic feet and for a
single man 2,160 cubic feet. In a corner of each verandah is placed a stone on