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I] smaller area, as shown in the map on page 158, but this arrangement did not last long, for in 1912 the Presidency of Bengal was created. The opportunity was taken to revive the old official designation of Fort William in Bengal, but it is usually called Bengal, and in ordinary speech the name of Fort William is only applied to the fort

in Calcutta. In this volume the name Bengal refers solely to the newly created Presidency.

Bengal lies between the twenty-second and twenty-seventh parallels of north latitude, while its limits east and west lie between the eighty-seventh and ninety-third degrees of east longitude. It stretches from the Himalayas