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.
Of all the Christian places of worship, the English Cathedral is the most magnificent.

It is built in the Gothic style, with a fine large tower rising above half-a-dozen smaller ones.

There are other churches with Gothic towers, but these edifices are all extremely simple in the interior, with the exception of the Armenian church, which has the wall near the altar crowded with pictures in gold frames.
The notorious "Black Hole," in which the Rajah Suraja Dowla cast 150 of the principal prisoners when he obtained possession of Calcutta in 1756, is at present changed into a warehouse.