in Hindustan, the name applied to the southern portion of Lighthouse Island, the northern division of which called Old Woman's Island is joined to the Island of Bombay by a causeway overflowed at high water. The lighthouse is situated at the southern extremity of the island; its lantern is 150 feet above the level of the sea. Colaba is the seat of an observatory, established for the purpose of taking magnetic and meteorological observations. It also contains a church. This building is of recent erection, and the circumstances connected with its origin are at once extraordinary, and honourable to the motives of its founders. The want of provision for religious worship was one which had long been felt, and the desire of keeping in remembrance the services and sufferings of their brave countrymen during the late war in Scinde and Afghanistan, was a feeling deeply seated in the hearts of the British residents. After much consideration it was resolved to gratify it, not by a monument simply commemorative of the dead, but by a building which, while it effected the object just named, should supply to the living the means of approaching Him in whose hands are the issues of battles. Such is the brief and interesting history of the church of Colaba.

(Angria's territory).** See Kolaba.