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From the mouth of the Coja the Ganges takes a more fouth- Mauldah. 

 ern diredtion towards the fea. Mauldah is a neat city on the 

 northern fide, feated on a fmall river, which is foon fwallowed 

 up in the greater. By the addition of the title of Englijh Bazar, 

 it feems to have been a great market for the Bengalllan Englijh. 



The vail province oi Bengal begins at the mouth of the Co fa. ^^ the Pro- 



, . r r VINCE OF BeN- 



and IS near a fquare, four hundred miles in breadth, little more "At. 

 than a fourth lefs than the kingdom of France, and at prefent 

 governed by a company oiBritiJJo merchants, who ilTue out their 

 fovereign mandates from a mean hall in Leadenhall Street. I 

 ought in its place to have mentioned the province of Babar, 

 which is now within our government of Bengal. It begins at 

 the jundion of the Gogra with the Ganges, extends far on each 

 fide of the banks of the Ganges, and joins the province of Ben- 



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^t?/ about the mouth of the Cofa. 



This province oi Bengal contains eleven millions of people, 

 and brings in a revenue of £. 2,540,000, a clear revenue of 

 ^. i,67Oj000, Abulfazel, ii, 20, gives a moll incredible antiquity 

 to the Rajahs of this country : the firll twenty-four lived to 

 patriarchal ages ; their ages taking in a period of 2,418 years. 

 Bugriit, who leads the van, reigned two hundred and eighteen 

 years. At length it was conquered by the Mahometan invaders. 

 We fliall pafs over a long interval to the death of Aliverdy Cawn, 

 in 1756 ; his nephew, a youthful prince, fucceeded, and wilhed 

 to drive the Engli/Jj, who were the invaders of his privileges, 

 out of the country ; he took Calcutta, and ftifled in the black- 

 hole a multitude of his late mailers. He was driven out from 

 his refumption of Calcutta, was decifively beaten in 1757, at 



Plajey, 



