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he ^Yas fo drunken a beaft, that the admiral found it impoffible 

 to take him out of the Hne of Hfe in which he was * . 

 iTj-LT/v. A FEW miles below Calcutta^ on the eaftern banks, ilands 



the wretched village of Fulta, remarkable only for being the 

 retreat of a part of our fa<Slory who had efcaped from Calcutta, 

 when it was taken by Surajah Dowlab. Here they were found, 

 by our navy in its way up the river, crowded together in the 

 moll miferable hovels, half naked, and half ftarved ; fuddenly 

 reduced from the luxuries of the capital to the moft deplorable 

 condition. Here they endured great miferies during five months, 

 and great havoke was made among them by licknefs. They 

 were found humbled and refigned, perhaps from the confide- 

 ration of having in their turn contributed to the calamities of 

 others. 



Almost oppofite to Ftdta the Ganges receives two large 

 rivers from the weft, and from their mouths it takes a quick 

 turn to the eaft, and winds round a promontory. Below that, 

 CuLPEi °^ ^^^ eaftern bank, ftands the town of Culpee. There begins 



the Sunderbundsy the vaft tradls of woods and morafs mentioned 

 at p. 151. A few miles to the fouth of Culpee is the opening 

 into the famous Cbanneb Creek, now called New Harbour, one 

 of the remarkable paftages from the fea amidft the ftupendous 

 foreft. The mouth is fixty-five miles below Calcutta, and 

 through this the whole trade of Bengal is carried, during the 

 feafon when the weftern branch of the Ganges is dried up. 

 Fp.om above Culpee the Ganges rufhes with vaft violence and 



* Ives's Voyage, p. 100. 



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