by Church Gate Road, and W. to the Church Gate station of the B. B. and C. I. Railway, is the Public Works' Secretariat, with a façade 288 ft. long; the central part having 6 stories. The Railway, Irrigation, etc. Departments are in this office. The Post Office has 3 floors, and is 242 ft. long, with wings on the N. side. It is in the medieval style (architect, Trubshawe). The stone used is the same as that of the Telegraph Offices; the arrangement is excellent in point of convenience. The Telegraph Office, in modern Gothic style, has a façade 182 ft. long. The facing is of coursed rubble stone from Coorla in Salsette, and the columns are of blue basalt. The State Record Office and Patent Office occupy the W. wing of the Elphinstone College, close to the Mechanics' Institute. Amongst the records are preserved the oldest document relating to the Indian Empire, a letter from Surat, 1630; and the letter of the Duke of Wellington announcing the victory at Assaye. The Town Hall, in the Elphinstone Circle, designed by Col. T. Cowper, was opened in 1835, and cost about £60,000, by far the larger portion being defrayed by the E. I. Comp. The building has a colonnade in front, and the façade is 260 ft. long. The pillars in front, and the external character of the edifice, are Doric; the interior is Cor inthian. On the ground floor are: the Medical Board offices, in which are four handsome Ionic pillars, copied from those of a temple on the banks of the Ilyssus; and the office of the Military Auditor General, and some of the weightier curiosities of the Asiatic Society. In the upper story is the Grand Assembly Room, 100 ft. square, in which public meetings and balls are held; the Assembly Room of the Bombay Asiatic Society; and the Library of this Society, founded by Sir James Mackintosh, containing about 100,000 volumes. A stranger can have gratuitous access to the rooms for a month by an order from one of the members of the Society. The Levee Rooms of the Governor and the Commander-in-Chief, the Council Room, etc., are no longer used for their original purposes. The statue of Mountstuart Elphinstone, a distinguished Governor during the Mutiny, occupies the place of honour in the Grand Assembly Room. That of Sir J. Malcolm is at the head of the staircase, and that of Sir C. Forbes in a corner near it, all 3 by Chantrey. At the bottom of the staircase is the statue of Sir Jamshidji Jijibhai. The Council Room contains pictures of Baji Rao Peshwa, whose adopted son, Nana Dhundu Pant, will be ever infamous as the author of the massacre at Cawnpore; of Baji Rao's celebrated minister, Nana Farnavis; and of Mahadaji Sindia,-all three painted by Mr. Wales. In the Asiatic Society's Library are busts of Sir James Carnac by Chantrey and Sir J. Mackintosh. The Geographical Room contains pictures of Sir A. Burnes, and Sir C. Malcolm and Captain Ross, the two first Presidents of the Geographical Society; also a very fine collection of maps. The Mint is close to the Town Hall, but farther back, having a tank in front of it. It is a plain building, with an Ionic portico, designed by Major J. Hawkins, and completed in 1829. It stands upon reclaimed land, where considerable difficulty was experienced in laying the foundation stone: the cost was in consequence very great. At this Mint 300,000 rs. can be coined in one day. We read that authority was granted to the Company by the Crown to establish a mint so early as 1676. In the Bullion Room there are sometimes from £100,000 to £200,000 of silver in London bars, weighing 80 lbs. each, and San Francisco bars, weighing 100 lbs. The sweepings are crushed by stone rollers weighing four tons, an the silver is got by litharge. Ther two steam-engines of 40-horse ] Forty specimens of false coins hibited, one of which has been 1 coin, but all the silver has been scooped out and lead substituted. These coins have been collected since September 1872. Government House at Parell was a Portuguese place of worship and monastery, confiscated by the English government on account of the traitorous conduct of the Jesuits in 1720. Governor Hornby was the first who took up his residence there, between 1771-80. To supply the required accommodation Mr. Elphinstone built the right and left wings. The public rooms are in the centre facing the W. The drawing-room or ball-room above the dining-room occupies the place of the old Portuguese chapel. On the staircase there is a bust, and in the ball-room a portrait, of the Duke of Wellington. At the end of the ball-room is what is called the Darbar Room. From the S. corridor steps descend to a platform in the garden, where the band plays. The garden of Parell is pretty, and has at its W. extremity a tank, and on its margin a terrace, which rises about 10 ft. above the water and the grounds. Since 1880 the Governors have lived principally at Malabar Point, and Parell House has been very much neglected. Government House at Malabar Point.It is a pleasant drive of about 4 m. from the Fort along the seaside, skirting Back Bay, which on account of the sea-breeze is cooler, though less interesting, than through the hot and crowded bazaars. At about 3 m. from the Fort the road begins to ascend a spur of Malabar Hill. Near the top on the 1. are the entrance gates to the drive, which in less thanm. through a shady groove of trees by the sea-shore leads to Government House. It is a building of no architectural pretensions, but is simply a bungalow, or rather a series of bungalows, with large cool rooms and deep verandahs overlooking the sea, and a pleasant view across Back Bay to the city of Bombay on the farther side. Some of the detached bungalows are for the Governor's staff and for guests, all being from 80 to 100 ft. above the sea. Below them at the extreme point is a battery, which could sweep the sea approach. Not far off to the N. a large ship, the Diamond, was wrecked and 80 passengers were drowned. Sir Evan Nepean was the first Governor to reside at Malabar Point. He went there in 1813, as the cool sea-breeze was indispensable to his health, and built an additional room to the Sergeants' quarters, which was the only house existing in the neighbourhood. In 1819-20, Mr. Elphinstone added a public breakfast-room, and a detached sleeping bungalow on a small scale. In 1828 Sir John Malcolm gave up, for public offices, the Government House in the Fort and the Secretary's office in Apollo Street, and considerably enlarging the residence at Malabar Point, regularly constituted it a Government House. Close by is the Between the Mint and the Custom picturesque temple of Valkeshwar (see House are the remains of the Castle, below). The drive from Malabar Point, covering 300 sq. ft. Only the walls and thence along the sea by Breach facing the harbour remain. There is Candy, is one of the most beauti-a flagstaff here from which signals are ful in the island, and is thronged with carriages and equestrians every evening. The Victoria Station, terminus of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, stands in a conspicuous place, in the angle between the Esplanade Market Road and the Boree Bandar Road, within a few minutes walk of the Fort. It is a vast building, elaborately ornamented with sculpture and surmounted by a large central dome; at the same time its arrangements are found to be practically most convenient. The architect was F. W. Stevens; the style is late Gothic. It cost the Rly. Comp. £300,000, and was completed in 1888. It is one of the handsomest buildings in Bombay, and the finest rly. sta. in India. made to ships, and also a clock tower, where a time signal-ball, connected by an electric wire with the Observatory 1. Victoria Museum. 2. Gowalee Tank. 3. Native Theatre. 4. Jail. 5. Christ Church. 6. Free Church. 10. School of Art. 11. Marine Battalion Lines. 12. Gaiety and Novelty Theatres. 14. Mint. 15. Town Hall. 16. St. Andrew's Church. 17. Lunatic Asylum. 18. English Cemetery. To face p. 6. at Colaba, in which are valuable arrangements for magnetic and other observations, falls at 1 P.M. Adjoining the Castle is the Arsenal (order for admittance must be obtained from the Inspector of Ordnance). Besides the usual warlike materials, harness, tents, and other such necessaries for army equipment are made here; and here also is an interesting collection of ancient arms and old native weapons of various descriptions. procure timber, and on his return he brought his family with him. From that day to this the superintendence of the docks has been wholly in Lowji's family; or, as it is well expressed by a well-known writer, "The history of the dockyard is that of the rise of a respectable, honest, and hard-working Parsi family." Up to this time the king's ships had been hove down for repairs at Hog Island. About 1767 it became necessary to enlarge the yard. In 1771 two grandsons of Lowji— Framji Manikji and Jamshidji Bahmanji-entered the dockyard, working as common carpenters at 12 rs. a month. In 1774 Lowji died, leaving only a house and a sum of money under £3000. He bequeathed, however, to his family a more precious legacy, The Custom House is a large, ugly old building, a little to the S. of the Town Hall and Cathedral. It was a Portuguese barrack in 1665, and then a quarter for civil servants. Forbes in his Oriental Memoirs says that in 1770 he was there and could get no supper the remembrance and prestige of or candles, so he sat on the roof read- his character for spotless integrity. ing Shakespeare by moonlight. It Manikji succeeded him as masterbecame a Custom House in 1802. builder, and Bahmanji was appointed The entrance is always thronged with his assistant, and the two managed the natives. The landing-place E. is called docks with increased success. They the Town Bandar. The Dockyard built two fine ships of 900 tons, and extends hence to the Apollo Gate, with the men-of-war crippled in the severe a sea-face of nearly 700 yds. actions between Sir Edward Hughes and Admiral Suffrein were docked at Bombay. Bahmanji died in 1790, in debt, and Manikji two years afterwards, leaving but a scanty sum to his family. Their sons succeeded them. Jamshidji in 1802 built the Cornwallis frigate for the East India Company, and his success determined the Home Government to order the construction of ships for the Royal Navy at Bombay. In consequence of his talents, he was permitted to have the sole supervision as master builder. In 1805 the dockyard was enlarged; and in 1820 the Minden, 74, built entirely by Parsis, was launched, and about the same time the Cornwallis, 74, of 1767 tons. Subsequently the Wellesley, 74, of 1745 tons; the Malabar, 74; the Seringapatam, and many other ships of war were built; including the Ganges, 84; the Calcutta, 86; and the Miani, of 86 guns. All these vessels were made of teak. have sufficiently proved the quality of that wood. It has that a teak ship will last to fives times as long as one ‹ The Dockyard. So early as 1673 the East India Company had been compelled to build ships of war to protect their merchantmen from the attacks of the Maratha and Malabar pirates. Surat, however, was the chief station for building vessels, and up to 1735 there were no docks in existence at Bombay. In that year a vessel was built at Surat for the Company, and an officer despatched from Bombay to inspect it. Being much pleased with the skill and intelligence of the Parsi foreman, Lowji Naushirwanji; and knowing that the Government was desirous of establishing a building-yard at Bombay, this officer endeavoured to persuade him to leave Surat and take charge of it. The Parsi, however, had too much honesty to accept this advantageous offer without permission from his master to whom he was engaged. On its being granted, he proceeded to Bombay with a few artificers, and selected a site for the docks. Next year Lowji was sent to the N. to |