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Chapter II. —In Kohgalu Tracts

62 IN KOHGALU TRACTS [Chap. II After a day's enforced halt at Saräb-nänis, due to a continuous downpour, I returned on December ioth to Tang-i-Maliün for a closer survey of the site. In the ruined structure already referred to as situated near its eastern extremity it was easy to recognize a small but solidly built residence, probably occupied at one time by a leading landowner. It forms a compact square, originally enclosed on all sides by walls measuring 4 feet outside and correctly orientated (Plan 4). The southern wall has completely fallen away from the three barrel-vaulted rooms which it once fronted. Through it is likely to have been the main approach to a middle room, A, measuring 27 feet in length and approximately 13 feet wide. While the outer walls of the house show a thickness of 4 feet, the interior ones dividing apartments are throughout 3 feet thick. Two rooms, C, D, flanking the central apartment, are both 10 feet wide, but vary in length. They both had their separate entrances, which suggests that one or possibly two may have served for the accommodation of guests or for stabling. From the middle apartment, A, two doorways 4 feet wide opened into an open court, B, measuring 27 feet by 21^ feet. In the south-west corner of this court a debrisfilled passage probably contained a staircase leading to the upper floor which, as the photograph (Fig. 18) shows the front portion of the house certainly carried. On three sides the court appears to have been adjoined by a series of small apartments, which are likely to have served for the accommodation of servants, kitchen, etc. But without excavation their interior dividing walls and their entrances could not be determined. Through the middle of the eastern enclosing wall a doorway 5 feet wide led into a small