. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. e had been built by the marquis extensive plain, in the front of which this edifice waserected, was adorned with a great number of handsomedetached mansions, which were the residences of theprincipal English families, and were placed in the midst of large city had also been greatly enlarged and very much improved ; or, itmay be said, that a new city had been added to the old one. The latterwas called the Black, or native town, while the new part was distinguished
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. e had been built by the marquis extensive plain, in the front of which this edifice waserected, was adorned with a great number of handsomedetached mansions, which were the residences of theprincipal English families, and were placed in the midst of large city had also been greatly enlarged and very much improved ; or, itmay be said, that a new city had been added to the old one. The latterwas called the Black, or native town, while the new part was distinguished asthe European quarter, and consisted of fine streets and squares, formed ofelegant buildings, mostly detached from each other but having a communi-cation by stone terraces, and being shaded by a variety of luxuriant the Black town and the European quarter, were many dwellingsin the eastern style, built within enclosed courts, and inhabited chiefly bywealthy merchants, some of whom were natives of Bengal, others Parsees,or Armenians. Besides the government-house, the new town boasted of. The Government-Hoase at Calcatta. several other fine public buildings, among which were two large churches,a townhouse, and a courthouse, to which was afterward added a theatre ;and Calcutta had, in a short time, become an extensive, gay, and populouscapital. The marquis of Hastings succeeded Lord Minto as governor-general of 624 INDIA, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. India, in 1813, and continued to exercise the vice-regal authority for nearly tonyears, during which he did much for the benefit of the native population, bypromoting education, projecting and executing many useful public vv^orKs,and suppressing those predatory hordes already mentioned under the nameof Pindarries, who had become the scourge of the whole country. ThePindarrie chiefs held lands in the dominions of Holkar and Sindia, both ofwhom had large bodies of these desperadoes attached to their armies, forwhose maint
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