This main wall carried a parapet loopholed for musketry 8 feet in height and 3 feet in thickness.

The whole of the land front was covered by a faussebraye of varying thickness, ranging from 16 to 30 feet, and having a vertical scarp wall 8 feet high; exterior to this was a dry ditch about 25 feet in width.

The counterscarp was simply an earthen slope, easy to descend.

The glacis was very narrow, extending only 50 or 60 yards from the counterscarp, and covering barely one-half of the walls from the besiegers' view.

These walls were about seven miles in circumference, and included an area of about three square miles (see Colonel Baird-Smith's report, dated September 17, 1857).] [Footnote 11: The late Field Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala, G.C.B., G.C.S.I.] [Footnote 12: So badly off were we for ammunition for the heavy guns at this time, that it was found necessary to use the shot fired at us by the enemy, and a reward was offered for every 24-pounder shot brought into the Artillery Park.] [Footnote 13: Now General Sir Charles Reid, G.C.B.] [Footnote 14: Forrest's 'Indian Mutiny' and Norman's 'Narrative of the Siege of Delhi,' two interesting accounts from which I shall often quote.] [Footnote 15: A Mahomedan place of worship and sacrifice.] [Footnote 16: 'Siege of Delhi; by an Officer who served there.'] [Footnote 17: Forrest's 'The Indian Mutiny.'] [Footnote 18: Reid's own report.] * * * * *.