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Rh cene; and his expanding lawns were adorned with figures of now-white marble, that almot tarted under the artit's hand, from the rude material into life. On the domain was an Opera-houe for his amuement. At the outide entrance to the palace, tood the Governor's guard.

Fifty miles from Calcutta lies the town of Hugley, defended by a trong fortres, and urrounded by a deep ditch: it is a place of coniderable traffic, particularly in the article of opium, which is brought: chiefly from Patna. Notwithtanding the fatal effects of this plant, the irrevible avarice of the Dutch, induces them to raie it wherever they poes