CHAPTER IV
OLD DELHI
The walls— Kutb Minar—Alai Gate— Kuwwat-ul-Islam Mosque — Iron pillar — Tomb of Altamsh — Alai Minar — Shrine of Kutb-ud-din — Jamali Masjid — Tomb of Sultan Ghari.
Map, p. 132.
The walls of Old Delhi are twenty-eight to thirty feet In thickness, and about sixty feet in height above the ditch which surrounds them; the bastions are from sixty to a hundred feet in diameter; the intermediate towers are forty-five feet in diameter at the top, and well splayed out at the bottom. We are informed by Timur, In his Memoirs, that there used to be ten gates. From Adham Khan's tomb as a starting-point, near which is one of the smaller gates, the wall can easily be traced in a fair state of preservation, past the Ranjit (or Ghazni) Gate to the Fateh Burj at the corner, and thence to the Sohan Burj, where the high wall abruptly ends. A little beyond this was the Sohan Gate, and from about
