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gate, ancl yj the smaller north river gate through which Suraj-ud-daula 
entered the fort. 6 is the mound of the great flag-staff, i is the passage 
joining the northern and southern divisions of the fort. kX^vott are the 
series of rooms south of the east gate, of which the southernmost should 
he the Black Hole. £ is the staircase to the south-east bastion a. p is 
the verandah in front of the chambers KXpvoir. cr is the landing stage 
on which was placed the Company’s crane, r is the river wall armed 
with cannon and protected where necessary with palisades shown as dot- 
ted lines. Within the fort is a large central block of buildings marked 
in the plan as “ The Factorey.” Hamilton calls this the Governor’s 
House, and I prefer to use this name to indicate it, as “ the factorey ” is 
more commonly used to denote the whole fort. At the same time it 
must be remembered that the Governor did not live here in 1753, 
but in the Company’s House on the south side of the fort, although he 
still retained some rooms or offices in the south-east wing of the building 
for his own use. Adjoining the south-east bastion, we see the Export 
and Import Warehouses which, as Orme tells us, were added in 1747. 
Holwell speaks of them as the new, or colta, warehouses. The roofs was 
strong enough to carry cannon, and the south-east corner of the warehouses 
when thus armed seems to have been dignified with the title of the new 
S. E. bastion. 13 The east gate (e) was also armed with five cannon. The 
warehouse yard is separated from another yard to the west of it by a small 
zigzag wall. This yard («) was, I conjecture, the carpenter’s yard, since 
it is next to the warehouses, and is conveniently situated with reference 
to the river. As regards the buildings on the north side of the fort, 
mentioned in Simson’s letter of 25th February, 1756, I conjecture that 
<p <p are the lodgings occupied by the young gentlemen in the Company’s 
service, and that x, the central building in the north division of the fort, 
is the armoury. The former conjecture is supported by the very nature 
of the ground plan of the buildings, the latter by the fact that when Mr. 
R. li. Bayne uncovered the foundations of x in 1883 he found close by it 
pieces vitrified as if from a forge. The laboratory was situated in the 
east curtain 11 and must have been one of the rooms i/> Generally the 
13 Holwell alludes to the new S. E. bastion several times in his long letter to the 
Court of Directors. In section 40 he says : “ That [outpost] to the eastward at the 
Court House you will find commanded by the battery over the E. Gate and from the 
old and new South-east bastions within musket shot.” And again : “ The whole 
square between the south face of the fort and the hospital, and gate of the hurrying 
ground was commanded not only by the New South-east bastion, but by seven 
4-pounders on the new godowns.” In section 48 he says: “Accordingly prepared 
with the flag [of truce] on the original S.-E. bastion where Captain Buchanan was 
then posted.” 
11 I learn this fact from Dr. Busteed who has furnished me with the following 
