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The site-plan (Plate II) will show the actual shape, size, and the surrounding views of the plot. The site commands a round frontage of six hundred and fifty-two feet, with a straight back of five hundred and eighty-seven feet, and has three road junctions on the circular part of the segment. At the east end of the segment Hamilton Road and Malaviya Road, coming from the south, and another new unnamed road coming from the north-east, merge into the provincial road locally known as Fort Road. About the middle point of the segment, and just facing the front entrance and the porch-pillar, another new road meets the Fort Road, coming straight from the dyke of the Ganges and running as if into the house, and thus may fittingly be named after the Svastika Mansion by the Municipal authorities. At this junction, also, ends the three-mile long Thornhill Road, the best street in Allahabad: it issues from the Cantonment area and passes through the Civil Lines, having the famous Alfred Park on the right and Muir College grounds and towers on the left at a distance of some two furlongs from the Svastika Mansion. At the west end of the segment this road is crossed below the Bharadvāj Park by Lowther Road, which, at this junction, merging into the provincial road, connects the Ganges and the Yamuna. It runs from south to north and joins the East Indian Railway bridge on the Yamuna with the Curzon Bridge on the Ganges, and connects the city sides at two ends of the town. On the left of this important road stands the Government House Compound at a distance of some two furlongs, Bharadvāj-Āśrama at less than two hundred yards, and University grounds and main buildings at six furlongs; on the right lie the Swaraj and Anand Bhawans at some three hundred yards north, Prayag railway station at the distance of a mile, and the Chatham Lines fields and open country-side at one and a half miles. On the opposite side of Thornhill Road, between the central and western road junctions, is a triangular open ground, with a small tin-shed for public shelter, which terminates at another road-junction some fifty yards from the site, made of Lowther Road, provincial road, and Kamla Nehru Hospital-and-Annie Besant School Road.