1892.] Library. 125 



which has become the City of Calcutta, under most deplorable circum- 

 stances. 



They could not live ashore because of the excessive rain and because 

 of their former mud-built houses only three were even partly standing ; 

 therefore they made the best of it in sloops and country boats, in 

 addition to this they expected to be engaged in immediate war with the 

 French. 



It would seem that many months passed before they materially 

 bettered their condition for from two extracts from the Fort St. George 

 letters preseived by Sir Henry Yule, (which he says convey the whole 

 information he had been able to collect respecting the first year or two 

 of this establishment of Charnock's.) We learn that so late as May 

 of the next year, 1691. 



" They (in Bengal) could dispose of little [merchandize] nor have 

 they safe goedowns to secure them from damage, and the truth is they 

 live in a wild unsettled condition at Chuttinutee, neither fortifyed 

 houses nor goedowns, only tents, hutts and boats, with the strange 

 charge of near 100 soldiers, guardship, &c." 



This " guardship " suggests that they had not succeeded in erect- 

 ing the projected guardhouse, and was apparently a " great portugucz 

 frigott " purchased by Charnock for the purpose. [Hedge's Diary ii, 

 pp. 87 and 88]. It is probable that theMahomedan Government wholly 

 prohibited the erection of anything like a defensible building by the 

 English in the Chatanati village. 



6. On the Flora of the Blade Mountain. — By Surgeon Captain 

 Westhrop-White, I. M. S., communicated by the Natural History 

 Secretary. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



h 



IBRARY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 meeting held in March last. 



Transactions, j^f^oceedings and Journals, 



presented by the respective Societies and Editors. 

 Berlin. Dcr Gesellschaft Naturfoischender Frcunde, — Sitzungs- 

 berichte, 1891. 



