A History of the Mahrattas v1.c24.34

v1.c24.34

² [It was when Calcutta was thus threatened that ‘the imperfect fortification known as the Marāthā Ditch’ was constructed (O.H.I., p. 457). The line of the Ditch corresponded nearly with the outside of the existing Circular Road, except at the south-east and south, where the work was never carried to completion. (Yule’s Hobson-Jobson, 2nd ed. (1903), p. 537, gives quotations from Orme, Macaulay and others.)]