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sitting-room, and a bed-chamber on each side ; the field-officers' 

 quarters are excellent ; those belonging to the commanding officer 

 form an elegant and spacious building. The kitchens and offices 

 are at a proper distance. The area of the principal square is a 

 grass-plot, divided by gravel walks into four equal parts, regularly 

 planted with beautiful nym or lym-trees. During our stay we 

 took the advantage of two fair days to go to Monheer, celebrated 

 for a mosque and tank of singular beauty ; in them we were disap- 

 pointed, but the neighbouring country afforded us excellent sport 

 in hunting the wild hog. 



After a reluctant parting with our friendly hosts at Dinapore, 

 we proceeded, Sept. 21, to Banguepore, a few miles from Patna, 

 and the residence of the civil servants on that station. On landing, 

 we met with the usual kind reception ; and among other things 

 saw the gola, a building intended for a public granary, or a depo- 

 sit of grain to be provided, as are similar ones at other stations, 

 against the future ravages of famine. Its external appearance is 

 that of an immense dome, covering one of rather smaller dimen- 

 sions, within which the grain is deposited. 



The following morning we rode from Banquepore to Patna, to 

 view the monument erected in commemoration of the massacre in 

 the year 1763, ordered by Cossim Ally Khan, and executed by 

 Samnoo. By this inhuman mandate upwards of two hundred civi- 

 lians, military officers and soldiers, prisoners with Cossim Ally, 

 were deliberately murdered. The monument stands near the house 

 where the cruel deed was committed ; it is surrounded by an en- 

 closure which forms the English burying-ground. The column is 

 in a good style, but has neither an inscription, nor any device ex- 



