We managed, however, to find quarters in the telegraph office, and remained there till our departure, two days later, for Quetta.

During the storm the thermometer sank to 50 deg.

Fahr., although a few moments before it had marked 78 deg..
Kelat contains--with its suburbs, which are of considerable extent--about 15,000 inhabitants, and is picturesquely situated on the edge of a fertile plain thickly cultivated with wheat, barley, and tobacco.

The city is built in terraces, on the sides and summit of a limestone cliff, about a hundred and fifty feet high.

This is called the "Shah Mirdan," and is surrounded at the base of the hill by high mud ramparts, with bastions at intervals, loopholed for musketry.
The "Mir," [A] or palace of the Khan, overhangs the town, and is made up of a confused mass of buildings, which, though imposing at a distance, I found on closer inspection to consist chiefly of mud, which in many places had crumbled away, leaving great gaping holes in the walls.