"[illegible] fine and the surface smooth and as flat as or smoother than a common pavement. Only in one or two places were the rough marks on the basalt on the edges seen which mark the ordinary wall. Inside the church it is said to still contain its tower and wall of the temple. The old Dacca streets are very narrow and you are left as traffic increases impossible on them. Most of the Daccales equally now side a street the other being wide being down down to widen the street. The first wall visited that consisting of larger irregular stones has the foundation showing owing to the cutting down of the road. The foundation is made of small irregular stones roughly piled up & is a characteristic weakness of Dacca walls. They did not seem to understand foundations.