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88 or Superintendant of the people employed in the mint, to coin goulmores, rupees, and paiays. Fort William is a mile from the town, and the mot extenive in India. The plan of it was an irregular tetragon, built with brick and mortar made of brick dut, lime, molaes, and hemp, a compoition that forms a cement as hard and durable as tone. The different batteries urrounding it, are planted with about ix hundred cannon: and its inner entrance is by ix gates, four of which are generally left open: outide thee are fourteen gateways leading through different avenues, to the inner gates everally ituate in oppoite directions to the river, the Hopital, Kidderpore, and cutta