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BENARES, PAST AND PEESENT.
183
anagram and Eaja Deo ISTarain Singh, late members of
the Legislative Council of India, and other natives of
this stamp, united with well-selected Europeans, not all
Government officers,—men of observation, and capable
of deviating, if need be, from old stereotyped forms
and beaten tracks, and striking out a path for them-
selves,—the prosecuting of wholesome sanitary reforms,
the completing of effectual drainage, the opening out
and widening of thoroughfares for the free admission
of air, and the purifying of the religious edifices, should
be a labour undertaken heartily, and prosecuted with
enthusiasm. Under the auspices of a corporation thus
constituted, we should soon see a thorough transform-
ation of the city; but, at the same time, we are
perfectly sure that it is only by such a body that the
radical changes, so imperatively demanded in this region
of palaces and filth, in this hot-bed of periodical disease,
can be effected. It is my earnest hope, that, in these
days of progress, the time-honoured city of which I
have been writing will not be left in the rear, as, in
some respects, it now undoubtedly is, but will soon be
ranked amongst the foremost cities in the land, in regard
to all measures tending to advance the prosperity and
happiness of the native community.
183
anagram and Eaja Deo ISTarain Singh, late members of
the Legislative Council of India, and other natives of
this stamp, united with well-selected Europeans, not all
Government officers,—men of observation, and capable
of deviating, if need be, from old stereotyped forms
and beaten tracks, and striking out a path for them-
selves,—the prosecuting of wholesome sanitary reforms,
the completing of effectual drainage, the opening out
and widening of thoroughfares for the free admission
of air, and the purifying of the religious edifices, should
be a labour undertaken heartily, and prosecuted with
enthusiasm. Under the auspices of a corporation thus
constituted, we should soon see a thorough transform-
ation of the city; but, at the same time, we are
perfectly sure that it is only by such a body that the
radical changes, so imperatively demanded in this region
of palaces and filth, in this hot-bed of periodical disease,
can be effected. It is my earnest hope, that, in these
days of progress, the time-honoured city of which I
have been writing will not be left in the rear, as, in
some respects, it now undoubtedly is, but will soon be
ranked amongst the foremost cities in the land, in regard
to all measures tending to advance the prosperity and
happiness of the native community.