1892.] C. R. Wilson— Note on the Riverside of Calcutta in 1788. 157 



next owner of the property was Nanda's son Doyal Chanel Addy, who 

 was in his clay a distinguished resident of Calcutta. He was a tjreat 

 rider and kept a large stud of horses. I find his name in October 1806 

 as one of the signatories of an address to Sir Henry Russel then Chief 

 Justice of Bengal. Doyal Chand died in 1835. His son Babu Raj 

 Ballub Addy is still living and is an old man of 72. It is to him and to 

 Babu Gaurdas Bysack that I am indebted for my information about 

 this old Calcutta family. The three-storied Thakur Bari is not now in 

 existence. It is shown in Simms' Survey of Calcutta in 1849, but it has 

 since been pulled down, and the site sold and covered with huts and 

 sheds. The two-storied house is still standing in Dharmahatta Street 

 at the corner of Darpa Naraian Tagore's Street. The house is much 

 altered, but I have been all over it, and I am convinced that it is the 

 same house as that shown in the picture. 



The little temple is also still standing, but is almost hidden away 

 from sight by a large shed belonging to Messrs. Ralli Bros, built close 

 np beside it and behind it. It is a temple of S'iva and belongs to a 

 Biswas family. 



The picture shows at least two ghats. I am a little uncertain as to 

 their names. The one adjacent to the temple and immediately north of it 

 was called the Ram Sita Ghat ; the other to the south of this, according 

 to the maps of Wood and Upjohn, was called Hurreenant Dewan's Ghat 

 in 1785-95, but from some valuable maps which have been kindly lent 

 me by Babu Gaurdas Bysack it appears that in 1830 the Ram Sita 

 Ghat had disappeared and that the second ghat was called the Seebtolah 

 Ghat. This name, however, is given by Wood and Upjohn to another 

 ghat further north of this spot which seems also to have disappeared by 

 1830. There were therefore in 1788 three ghats near this place — the 

 Seebtolah Ghat, the Ram Sita Ghat and Hurreenant Dewan's Ghat. 

 The first two were subsequently done away with, and the name Seebtolah 

 was transferred to the third ghat. 



The spire in the distance belongs to the Armenian Church. The 

 warehouses along the river side south of Jogul Kisore Addy's Thakur 

 Bari have mostly disappeared, many of them having been pulled down 

 to make room for the Mint. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Notes on tlie old plans of Forts and Toims of the East l , India 

 Company preserved by the French at JPondicherry, — By G. W. Forrest, 

 Esq., B. A. 



2. Note on the date of Nur Qutb Alam's death, — By H. Beveripge, 

 Esq., C. S. 



The papers will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



