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 to the Upper Provinces with the “GovernorGeneral;”’ then ‘the property of Mr. ,’ ‘the property of the Rev. C., &c. &c. I should hate that part of an Indian life. People’ are always changing their stations, and at every change they sell off everything, because there are no stages, waggons, or canals by which even a chair can be transported from one place to another, and it is not everybody who can afford a man’s head on which to carry it.

Yours most affectionately, E.E.

Government House, August 18, 1837. , I've got your No. 15; as usual it dropped in in an odd unexpected manner. It could not have come in a ship, for there was. not one in the river; nothing else came but a packet from the ‘Company.’ Perhaps, after all, you are the ‘Company.’ We have all been busy during the rainy-season fever—all but his ‘Excellency,’ who is atrociously and inhumanly well—for the whole of Calcutta has been sick. We don’t die of our influenzas, because we