a town of British India, in the presidency of Bengal, and district of Hoogly, on the right bank of the Hoogly, 18 miles N. of Calcutta. It is a neat, clean, well-built place, somewhat like a European town. The principal building is the court-house, which was the government-house while the Danes possessed the town; and the chief manufacture carried on here is that of paper, which is

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1 For accounts of this great work see Fritsche in Herzog's Cyclopaedia, "Alexandr. Bibelübers," &c.