in Hindustan, one of the suburbs of Calcutta, situate on the left bank of the Hooghly, five or six miles north of Fort-William. This place contains the government foundry, established for the casting of brass ordnance required for the military service of India. It was erected many years since by Colonel Hutchinson of the engineers, upon the best European model, and the establishment is represented as one of the most complete and perfect to be found in any part of the world. Specimens of the ordnance cast at Cossipore were sent home during the administration of Marquis Hastings, and being submitted to the examination of a committee of royal artillery officers at Woolwich, were pronounced superior in respect of workmanship and finish to those of the royal arsenal, the particular pattern of the gun being alone objected to. Instruction in the casting of guns is here afforded to the company's artillery officers upon their first arrival at Calcutta. Lat. 22. 38; Long. 88. 26.