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 lies between 22° 57’ 32” and 21° 55’ 20” north latitude, and 88° 20’ 51” and 88° 6’ 45” east longitude. It contains a total area, as returned by the Surveyor-General in 1871, of 2536 square miles, exclusive of the Sundarbans, but inclusive of the area of Calcutta, which is 7.80 square miles, and of its suburbs, which amount to 23.17 square miles. The population of the District, according to the Census of 1872, which takes the area at 2788 square miles, is 2,210,047 souls, exclusive of the town of Calcutta, but inclusive of its suburbs. Calcutta contains an additional population returned at 447,601 souls. The Census of 1872 cannot, however, be accepted as accurate for the city, and has been condemned. It is the chief town; but the Administrative