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GANGETIC HINDÖOSTAN.

COSIMEÜZAR.

SlLK-

Motte Gjli.

Plassey.

qaented paffage from Cakutta into the main part of the river;
but unfortunately is almoft dry from Qclober to May.

At the diftance of about two miles from that city is Cojim-
buzar, a fmall town, but the center of trade of all the Euro-
pean faclors; vaft quantities of raw filk is prepared here, and
great variety of piece-lilk änd bandkerchiefs made, befides
ftockings, gloves, and other articles, all knit by the men. The
filkworms are fed on a dwarf fpecies of mulberry, the Morus
Indica of Lindaus, the Babegarany, and Caju Befaar of Rumph.
Amb. v. tab. v. and the Tinda Parva of Rbeede, in Ray's Hiß.
PL ii. 1569. I do not find a botanift to vindicate my putting
the fpecies naturalized in Europe among the trees of India.

In the neighborhood is Motte Gill, or the lake of pearl, one of
the moft elegant Mahometan palaces, now the refidence of
an Engliß factor. It receives its title from the pellucid water of
the lake; that of the Ganges is fo muddy as to produce a fedi-
ment of one-fourth.

Below this town the Channel paffes by Plaß'ey, a fmall place,
immortalized by the glorious victory obtained onjzcne ii<$, 1757,
by Colonel Clive over the army of Surajah Dowlab, compofed
of fifty thoufand foot, eighteen thoufand horfe, and fifty pieces
of cannon, with a handful of men fhort of three thoufand two
hundred, of which nine hundred were Europeans. He forced
the camp, and after a well contefted flght, in which the faith-
ful general of the Nabob was flain, drove the Indian army out
of the field, and gave to the Eaß India Company the eventual
pofTeflion of Wndooßan. I cannot pafs by this diftinguifhed
characler without a fhort eulogy. No age produced an ofhcer

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