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Royacottah: View Overlooking the Country, South-Southeast from inside the Fort Gate
Linnaeus Tripe British
Not on view
This photograph was made at the base of the hill fort at Royacottah, looking down a wall toward the gate; the fort is situated on top of the adjacent massive rock formation at right. After fierce fighting in 1791, the British captured this hill fort, which rose nine hundred feet above the plain and commanded a major pass. Tripe photographed it fifty years later, when the fort, once considered impregnable, had been abandoned and overgrown.
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