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DEAN MAHOMET.
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the country. Their ſtrongeſt hold, however, was the fort of Ganlin, in which they centred all their hopes of ſecurity, as it was always conſidered to be impregnable. It ſtands on a rock about two coſs in length, and in many places above four hundred feet high, in ſome three hundred, but in no ſituation leſs than one hundred-and feet in height The table is entirely ſurrounded by a rampart of ſtone, tiling immediately from the edge of,the rock, which in moſt parts, is rendered perpendicular. Within the rampart are many fine buildings, large tanks, innumerable wells, and cultivated land.
The only acceſs to the fort, is by
a flight
