a province of Hindustan, presidency of Bengal. It is bounded on the north by the British district of Beerbloem; on the N.E. and E. by that of Nuddea; on the south by Hooghly and Midnapore; and on the west by Bancoorah. It lies between Lat. 22° 52′—23° 40′ Long. 87° 21′—88° 23′, is 70 miles in length from N.E. to S.W., and 60 in breadth in the direction of the opposite angles, and contains an area of 2224 square miles. This district is perhaps the best cultivated and most productive of any similar extent of territory in India; while it appears like a garden in a wilderness, being surrounded by the jungles of Midnapore in Orissa, of Pachete, and of Beerbloem. Its products are grain, cotton, silk, sugar, and indigo, which it yields in great abundance, and of excellent quality. One of the most important objects of manufacture is the refining of sugar. The population has been estimated at 1,854,152. Several rivers traverse the province or form its boundaries, among which are the Hooghly, the Hadijee, the Bhagrattee and the Damooda. It is also intersected by the great trunk line of railroad from Calcutta to Rajmahal on the Ganges; and also by a branch from the main line extending from the town of Burdwan to the collieries at Raneegunge. The tract comprised within the province was acquired by the East India Company, under treaty with Meer Cossim in 1760, and confirmed by Shah Alam, emperor of Delhi in 1765. Burdwan, the principal place of the district, containing a population of upwards of 50,000 inhabitants, is situate in Lat. 23° 12′ Long. 87° 56′.