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they will plant trees on each side ; vegetation is here so rapid that 
they will soon form a delightful shade. It is a most excellent way 
of employing the convicts ; and as they are permitted to have their 
families with them during the day, cannot be considered as oppres- 
sive. At night the women and children live in huts built near the 
prisons. 
At Goganullah, one stage from Bhaugulpore, I was met by Major 
Shaw's hircarrab, with an invitation to his house. I had been re- 
commended to him by Mr. Graham. The country was rather undu- 
lated the rest of the way, and the multitude of mosques as I 
approached the town had a pleasing effect, which was much in- 
creased by the pensile foliage of the tamarind tree, planted constant- 
ly close to them, and the lofty palms that overtop them. I passed 
several singular buildings of Major Hutchinson, who had the first 
arrangement of the invalid villages, and who at every place erected 
an habitation of unknown orders of architecture, and which cannot 
be admired either for beauty or convenience. We are, however, 
indebted to him for the bungelows before mentioned ; peace, there- 
fore, to his ashes ! About a mile from the town I passed a monument, 
resembling a pagoda, erected to the memory of Mr. Cleveland, by 
the Aumlah and Zemindars of the Jungleterry of Rajahmahal, who, 
before his time were a race of savages, and whom, by conciliatory 
means alone, he induced to place themselves under the protection 
of the British Government. I arrived at Major Shaw's about ten 
o'clock. The day was not hot, we were therefore induced early in 
the evening to take a drive round the environs. The seat of the 
Resident is very pleasantly situated on a mount, partly artificial, 
commanding a view of most park-like grounds, and the blue 
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