SERAMPORE, a town of British India, in the presidency of Bengal, and district of Hoogly, on the right bank of the Hoogly, 18 miles N. of Calcutta. It is a neat, clean, well-built place, somewhat like a European town. The principal building is the court-house, which was the government-house while the Danes possessed the town; and the chief manufacture carried on here is that of paper, which is
1 For accounts of this great work see Fritsche in Herzog's Cyclopædia, "Alexandr. Bibeldber," &c.
Serpis
Sergel. of good quality. Serampore belonged to Denmark till 1845, when it was purchased by the British, as it had proved very inconvenient by affording a refuge to swindlers and insolvent debtors from Calcutta. The place attracted more attention than it would otherwise have obtained, as being the seat of the first mission-station from Europe in India. It was founded by William Carey towards the close of the last century, and has since been removed to Calcutta. Pop. of the town and suburbs, 13,000.