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THE TRAVELS OF
or Superintendant of the people employed in the mint, to coin goulmores, rupees, and paiſſays. Fort William is a mile from the town, and the moſt extenſive in India. The plan of it was an irregular tetragon, built with brick and mortar made of brick duſt, lime, molaſſes, and hemp, a compoſition that forms a cement as hard and durable as ſtone. The different batteries ſurrounding it, are planted with about ſix hundred cannon: and its inner entrance is by ſix gates, four of which are generally left open: outſide theſe are fourteen gateways leading through different avenues, to the inner gates ſeverally ſituate in oppoſite directions to the river, the Hoſpital, Kidderpore, and Cal-
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