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_Proves conclusively the Existence of the Dark Tower visited by / Childe Rolande, and of "Bogey" who frightens Children._
The Gamberi river -- clear as a trout stream -- runs through the waste round Chitor, and is spanned by an old bridge, very solid and massive, said to have been built before the sack of Ala-ud-din. The bridge is in the middle of the stream -- the floods have raced round either end of it -- and is reached by a steeply sloping stone causeway. From the bridge to the new town of Chitor, which lies at the foot of the hill, runs a straight and well-kept road, flanked on either side by the scattered remnants of old houses, and, here and there, fallen temples. The road, like the bridge, is no new thing, and is wide enough for twenty horsemen to ride abreast.