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BHAUGULPORE. 
mountains at a distance. In the front is a monument of marble, 
erected by order of the Governor-Generaf and Council to the 
memory of the same Mr. Cleveland. Indeed his memory ought to 
be preserved ; I shall therefore transcribe the inscription : 
To the Memory of Augustus Cleveland, Esq. 
Late Collector of the Districts of Bhaugulpore and Rajamahall, 
Who, without bloodshed or the terror of authority, 
Employing only the means of conciliation, confidence, and 
benevolence, 
Attempted and accomplished. 
The entire subjection of the lawless and savage inhabitants of the 
Jungleterry of Rajamahall, 
Who had long infested the neighbouring lands by their predatory 
Incursions, 
Inspired them with a taste for the arts of civilized life, 
And attached them to the British Government, by a conquest over 
their minds ; 
The most permanent as the most rational of dominion. 
The GovernorvGeneral and Council of Bengal, 
In honour of his Character, and for an Example to others. 
Have ordered this Monument to be erected. 
He departed this life on the 13th day of January, 1784, aged ^9. 
Major Shaw commands the corps of the Hill natives, now in our 
service ; it amounts at present to about three hundred, and he 
speaks of their conduct with the highest approbation. Of their 
singular manners and religious opinions, he has given a most ex- 
