The Hospital consists of several small houses, each standing in the midst of a grass plot.  The male patients are lodged in one house, the females and children in a second, while the lunatics are confined in the third.  The wards were spacious, airy, and excessively clean.  Only Christians are received as patients.

The hospital for natives is similar, but considerably smaller.  The patients are received for nothing, and numbers who cannot be accommodated in the building itself are supplied with drugs and medicines.

The Museum, which was only founded in 1836, possesses, considering the short space of time that has elapsed since its establishment, a very rich collection, particularly of quadrupeds and skeletons, but there are very few specimens of insects, and most of those are injured.  In one of the rooms is a beautifully-executed model of the celebrated Tatch in Agra; several sculptures and bas-reliefs were lying around.  The figures seemed to me very clumsy; the architecture, however, is decidedly superior.  The museum is open daily.  I visited it several times, and, on every occasion, to my great astonishment, met a number of natives, who seemed to take the greatest interest in the objects before them.

Ochterlony’s Monument is a simple stone column, 165 feet in height, standing, like a large note of admiration, on a solitary grassplot, in memory of General Ochterlony, who was equally celebrated as a statesman and a warrior.  Whoever is not afraid of mounting 222 steps will be recompensed by an extensive view of the town, the river, and the surrounding country; the last, however, is very monotonous, consisting of an endless succession of plains bounded only by the horizon.

Not far from the column is a neat little mosque, whose countless towers and cupolas are ornamented with gilt metal balls, which glitter and glisten like so many stars in the heavens.  It is surrounded by a pretty court-yard, at the entrance of which those who wish to enter the mosque are obliged to leave their shoes.  I complied with this regulation, but did not feel recompensed for so doing, as I saw merely a small empty hall, the roof of which was supported by a few stone pillars.  Glass lamps were suspended from the roof and walls, and the floor was paved with Agra marble, which is very common in Calcutta, being brought down the Ganges.

The Mint presents a most handsome appearance; it is built in the pure Grecian style, except that it is not surrounded by pillars on all its four sides.  The machinery in it is said to be especially good, surpassing anything of the kind to be seen even in Europe.  I am unable to express any opinion on the subject, and can only say that all I saw appeared excessively ingenious and perfect.  The metal is softened by heat and then flattened into plates by means of cylinders.  These plates are cut into strips and stamped.  The rooms in which the operations take place are spacious, lofty, and airy.  The motive-power is mostly steam.