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 EUKOPEAN SETTLEMENTS ELSEWHERE IN INDIA 303 are that the air is very insalubrious, the water brackish, and the soil damp, to such a degree that the floors of the houses are always damp from the excessive mois- ture, even though they are made of bricks and lime; and the walls likewise are wet to the height of two or three cubits. For four months in the winter the climate CHANDARNAGAR. is not so unhealthy; but for eight months during the summer and rainy seasons it is very injurious.' EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS AT CHANDARNAGAR AND ELSEWHERE Nawab Muhabbat Khan concludes his account of Calcutta with a panegyric of some thirty lines in verse, which is here omitted, but his next paragraph is given in full because it treats of the French settlement at Chandarnagar in Bengal, not far from Calcutta, and