The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.139
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.139
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The fortress stands on a solitary hill three miles and a quarter long and about 1200 yards wide in the centre, rising to a height of 1889 feet above sea-level, but no more than four or five hundred above the plain. Chitor presents to the modern eye the appearance of a vast ironclad in a sea which is represented by the plain from which the fortified hill rises.