KALAT
'Kalat
(or "the City," in the Beloochee dialect) is a town, in the
Ghiljee territory, surrounded by hills, and was the residence of Mehrab
Khan, chief of a clan of Ghiljees. It contains between three and four
hundred houses, and is exceedingly well fortified with mud walls. The
citadel, though presenting a formidable appearance, from its towering
height, offered but a fruitless resistance to the science with which it
was assailed. The fortifications of Khelat were erected by Nusseer Khan
Beglerbeg in 1750, at his own expense. He formed many gardens in the valley,
and stocked them with fruit trees from Caubul; he afterwards made presents
of them to the most deserving people, and also gave rewards for the finest
fruit, grain, etc. ... The sketch from which the accompanying drawing
is made, was taken by an officer of Engineers.'
