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fusion of bricks struck Burnes,* who remarks that “ the houses are constructed of bricks, and the streets are even laid with them. Some workmen digging a well in this neighbourhood lately hit upon a former well on which was a Hindu inscription. It set forth that it had been built by one Aqurtuta, of whom tradition gives no account.” I visited the place in 1838, only a few years after Burnes, but I failed to recover the inscription.