PLACES OF INTEREST

BHOPATGAD FORT.

Bhopatgad Fort, in Kurlot village 1500 feet long and 300 broad, stands on the top of a hill about 700 feet high, from twenty-five to thirty miles north of Mahuli and seven or eight south-west of Mokhada. The fort is two miles from the foot of the hill. In 1818 nothing remained of the works except a parapet wall of loose stones along the south-east corner; a gateway between two outstanding towers without parapet or breastwork; and on a rising ground on the hill-top a little tower from six to ten feet high and with a rampart about six and a half feet thick. Not far from the fort, near the main road from Trimbak to Vada, are memorial stones, or paliyas, of the same kind as those described in detail under Eksar and Shahapur. [Mr. Gibson, Deputy Conservator of Forests.]