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Howrah, (//abrah) the terminus of the East Indian Rail. way, was formerly only a small suburb, its chief importance being in conn ection with the docks for the accommodation . the shipping of the port of Calcutta, which are still to be ind only on this side of the river. Since the opening of * railway, it has vastly increased in size and population. Its connection with Calcutta is complete by the construction of the Hooghly Bridge. : The Railway Company’s Premises occupy an extensive river frontage, and include acc b haaid ition for the passenger traffic, and for the landing and discharging of Goods, Stores, &c. Formerly the head establishment of the Locomotive Depart ment was at Howrah; but, to make way for the increasing requirements of the Trat fic Department, one locomotive shops and the head establishment of that department were removed to Jamalpur. On leaving Howrah Station, the line passes near the Magis- trate’s Cutcherry, occupied during the last century as the Orphanage, since removed to Kidderpur. The main road is Saber over the railway by the Ch: andmari Bridge, about half a mile from the st: = mn. The railway premises adjoin the church and pie u-gound of Howrah, and the line passes over what was the . ee fore the station of Dum-Dum was selected as the head-quarters for that branch of the service. s The Portuguese were, previous to 1750, the great artillerymen of In- little more than a century has elapsed since the booming of the Mos- lem guns was heard on the opposite side of the river, when the Nawab of Murshidabad was besieging old Fort Willam, which stood where the Custom House is now ; Murshidabad was then the chief frontier town of the Enclish dominions in North India dia 7eetAiedibg ys Waban dat PRT THN ATLL THE TOURISTS CUIDE At Gusery, a suburb of Howrah, are large Cotton Mills, which are worked with considerable success. After leaving Howrah, there is little to observe beyond the rich cultivation of the adjacent country till we arrive at— Bally, (2d/z), the first station, 7m. The village is situated @n a Small stream or khal of the same name. The line is carried over it by means of an iron bridge, with piers of masonry, constructed on Warren’s principle, and supported on 2,000 piles. ‘To the right were formerly extensive buildings, used as sugar works and a rum distillery. On the site of these a fine Paper AZ has been built and fitted with first-class machinery, for making paper from jute fibre. Nearer the river, the old trunk road crosses the khal by a suspension bridge, constructed by Colonel Goodwyn, on Dredge’s principle. Bally contains several thousand families of Brahmans, the forefathers of some of whom, horror-struck at the execution of one Nandkumar, a “ Brahman of the Brahmans,” for forgery in Calcutta, in the days of Warren Hastings, rushed to the Ganges to purify themselves from the pollution of the spectacle, and vowed never to set their feet again within the city. But the schoolmaster is abroad, and their descendants may now be seen frequenting the rail and city in numbers. Beyond Bally, paddy-fields here and there present themselves, intermixed with faz or betel-nut plantations, shaded from the sun, and the £atld, a tree of the bread-fruit species. Connaghur, (Aozndgar) 10 m., is about half-way between Bally and Serampore: it lies in a very populous neighbourhood. About the tenth mile, on the opposite side of the river, is Litaghur, a place, fifty years ago, famous for ship-building, where ships of 1,000 tons were launched. Serampore, (Serémpur) 13 m., formerly the refuge for insolvent debtors and rogues, was a settlement of the Danes irom 755 to 1345.* In 1845, the Danes sold Serampur to the English for twelve lacs. ‘The church with its handsome steeple was built in 1865 at expense of Ks. 18,500, raised by subscription, of which RS. 1,000 were given by the Marquis of Wellesley. There is * The Danes began to trade in Bengal in 1698: their old warehouses on the banks of the river still remain, opposite which last century were to be seen, in one year, in the course of nine months, twenty-two ships, to a tonnage in the aggregate of 10,000; but from 1815 to 1845, only one vessel cameup. The products of English power looms destroy ed the trade in Indian goods,THE TOURIST’S GUIDE. 3 also a handsome Roman Catholic chapel, erected by the Barrettos in 1766, and a convent. Serampur will be ever remembered in connection with the Baptist Mission, founded here in 1799. The founders, Carey, Ward, and Marshman, are interred in the Serampur burial. sround. The Se rémpur College, on the banks of the river, is a fine building, erected in 1818, partly from the private funds of the Serampur missionaries. It has an iron roof, a handsome iron staircase, and a well-arranged library, containing some rare works on India. In front of it stood the house of Dr. Carey ; its site is now sixty feet in the river, which has here cut away much of the bank. The Baptist Missionaries also founded a newspaper Zhe Friend of India, which for a long time was regarded as the most influential in India. The Serdmpur steam paper mills, the first set up in India, are now turned into jute screws. ‘There is a considerable silk manufacture carried on here, principally in weaving handkerchiefs. The view from Serampur of Larrakpur with the Viceregal resi- denceand beautiful park, on the opposite bank, is much admired. Flotel : Bodry’s Hotel, on the river bank. Biddabatty, (4azdyabati) 15 m., noted for centuries as the seat of native doctors, now an important coal depdt: the country around is a great supplier of vegetables to Calcutta, a hundred boat-loads a day are sent down to the metropolis. At Pulta Ghat, on the east bank of the Hughli, the Grand Trunk Road meets the river Hughli, and the traffic is conveyed across to Ghyretty Ghat, on the confines of the French territory. Close to Pulta, at Monirampur, are the extensive works recently constructed for supplying Calcutta with water. Chandernagore, (Chandannagar, i. e., the City of San dal-wood) 22 m., is a French settlement, stretching 2 m. along the river bank, and 1% m. inland. The railway station is just outside the French boundary. The place which was first marked for the course of the line, in the immediate vicinity of Chandernagore was claimed by the French authorities, and difficulties arose, for the settlement of which Commis- sioners were appointed on the part of the French and English Governments. After many months’ of discussion, the impe- diments presented by the French authorities were so great that it was determined to carry the rail overground which was indisputably English. This town is the only territory of Za belle France in the north of India which yields her any profit, the French receiving from the English 300 chests of opiuminde A eee Let ML HUG syeteoritiieisiereitayy otis epee TUE AOR ays al <. steestitaracarar Tireir Tava 4 THE TOURISTS GUIDE. annually, on condition of not engaging in the manufacture of that article or interfering with the salt monopoly. The river view from the town is very picturesque, commanding a reach of the river teeming with rural beauty. A settlement at Chandernagore was granted to the French by the Emperor Aurangzib in 1688. Thirty yards west of the river is the site of the fort, which was strongly fortified, and which was taken in 1757 by the English fleet under Admiral Watson. The town was restored when the peace was made in 163. War broke out again in 1794, and the town was again taken, to be restored again in 1802. The last restoration to the French was in 1816. Here is a neat Roman Catholic Church, and, on the banks of the river, is another Church, built by Italian missionaries in 1726, and still in good preservation, but unused and dis- mantled. By 1740, chiefly owing to the wise rule of Governor Dupleix, Chandernagore had 4,000 brick-houses, while Calcutta was composed chiefly of mud hovels ; but Clive crushed the design entertained by the French of making Chandernagore the metropolis of India.* Ffotels : Mrs. Baker’s and Gallais’. Hooghly, (ughiz) (so called from hoglé, reed) 25 m. Under the Mahomedans, Hughli was the great port of West Bengal, and had factories erected by the Dutch (in 1625,) also by the Danes, French, and Portuguese, and by the English (in 1640), for purchasing saltpetre, as the civil war in England caused a brisk demand for this article. + In 1742 Hughli was sacked by the Marathas ; as lateas 1757, lt was the commercial emporium and principal granary of Bengal ; it was stormed in1757 bythe English under Captain Eyre Coote. Hughli is indelibly associated with recollections of the Portuguese, its first European settlers, about 1540, who in 1599 built a fort near where the Collector’s cutcherry is now, which * For an account of Chandernagore see ‘‘Malleson’s French Settle- ments in India.” tT Previous to the founding of Calcutta in 1686, Hughli continued to be the residence of the English chief and council. Job Charnock, subse- quently the founder of Calcutta, raised here a company of /ortzuguese infantry for the protection of the English factory. In 1686, the English and Moslem troops fought here, the town was cannonaded by the English fleet, and 500 houses were burnt, with English merchandize worth £ 300,000. This was one of the causes which led to the English settling in Calcutta. The Portuguese, the first European settlers in India, have disappeared, though in Akbar’s days they excluded the English from the trade of the Ganges, and were then the great merchants of Hughli,THE TOURIST’S GUIDE. 5 sustained, in 1632, a siege of 34% months, from Shahjahan’s army of Bengal; the fort was undermined, and the Portuguese finally, on finding the fort untenable, retired to their ships ; the Captain of one vessel, with 2,000 souls on board, rather than fall into the hands of the Moslems, blew his ship up. 64 large vessels and 200 ships were then anchored off the town, of which only three escaped, the rest were captured, and 4,000 Portuguese were taken prisoners. No remnant of Portuguese power now exists in Bengal. The Jmambara at Hughli is well worth a visit. It is in charge of a Shiah moulvie. The mosque is a handsome struc- ture, and there is ae a serail for the accommodation of travel lers. The entrance is beneath a lofty and massive clock tower. The clock chimes are remarkably fine and sonorous in tone. In the court-yard is a large oblong tank with a fountain in the Bentre,” At Bandel, on the banks of the river a little above the town Hughli, there is an old Roman Catholic Chapel and Priory, founded A. D. 1599,—+¢he oldest Christian Church tn Bengal,} built the year Queen Elizabeth sanctioned the establishment of the East India Company ; its steeple can be seen from the railway station. In consequence of the services rendered by the Portuguese to the King of Gaur, Bandel was given to them, and they built a fort opposite it for defence. In Bandel, a century ago, there were a nunnery, a boarding school, and college of Jesuits, but all have passed away; the church 1s now only noted for the festival-of the Novena, celebrated in November, to which a great number of Roman Catholics resort. When, in 1632, Hughli was taken by the Moguls, ape images and pictures of this church were destroyed by ynmand of the Emperor of Delhi: however, through the fuses of one of the priests, who was taken prisoner to Agra, 777 bigahs of rent-free land were granted to Bandel by the Emperor of Delhi. Bandel 1s cue o Cream Cheese. Two miles south of the town of Hughli is Chinmsura, ( CAt chirah) ceded by the Dutch to the Et es , In exchange for Sumatra, in 1826, after they had held it 200 years. The ‘The Imambara was founded with part of aie racy left by whan h r: who died during last century. The other part of the legacy is Muhsin, maintaining several Madrasahs in Bengal, and for now-a-days used for scholarships for Muhammadan students ee me eat ed tea lensyetana + The Church was burnt during the sieze of Hughli; but the keystone . } } ] a lam ps 8 with the year 1599 on it was Us sed when the church, shortly after 1632, was rebuilt.sent pcan tis ie Weal co At Ae tibas Wadden epi aah Fhieeeth Tear Teen THE TOURISTS ‘GUIDE: Dutch had traded in India before the English, showing as much energy in trade as in war, and the same indomitable spirit as when, in their marshes and mud _ banks, they resisted all the power of Spain; they rivalled the English in trade previous to the battle of Plassey, and had a strong fort in Chinsura in 1687, when the English had no means of defence in Bengal. ‘The Dutch Governor built a church here in 1768, at his own expense : it is now used by the English, and contains some curious escutcheons of old Dutch Governors, one of whom died in 168s. A few yards south of the Dutch Church is the Hughli College, built by Monsieur Perron, a French General, who, more than 60 years ago, acquired an enormous fortune in the Maratha ser- vice. ‘This college, containing more than 600 pupils, is partly supported by an endowment yielding Rs. 50,000 annually, left by Muhammad Muhsin ; it has two departments, the English, which contains 450 pupils, and the Oriental, with 50 pupils. Where the extensive English barracks are now, empty and abandoned, were once a fine Dutch fort and gardens, which had stood a century and a half, but in 1827 the fort was pulled down. ‘To the north of the barracks is the Armenian Church erected in 1695, at a time when the Armenians in Bengal were great traders and influential politicians ; near this church is the Dutch burial-ground, where “the old forefathers of the hamlet ” sleep. A few miles from Hughli, we pass over the Sazeaon bridge. The small stream Saraswat, or Sarsuti, over which this bridge is placed, wafted, three centuries ago, large vessels on its bosom. It was formerly a wide branch of the Hughli, which commenced at Tribeni, flowed west of Chinsura and Serdmpur and joined the Hughli again below the Botanical Gardens. It is now a small khal. At that period, Satgaon, now a miser- able village of a few huts, was a “great and noble city,” and, like Calcutta, defended by a fort. The foundations of the fort are to be seen near the trunk road bridge, as also the ruins of an old mosque, adjacent to which are some fine Moslem tombs. During the last century, the Dutch of Chin. sura had their country seats at Satgaon, to which they walked, in the mzddle of the day, to dine.* a Satgaon, or Saptagram, Z.e., seven-villages, is said to be a very ancient town. It lies on the Saraswati branch of the Hughli. After the conquest of Bengal by the Muhammadans in 120g) at became the seat of a Governor and a mint town; but already, in 1550, the Saraswati had siltedTHE TOURIST’S GUIDR. Mugrah, (J/agura) 30m. Muerah is well-known for its sand, which is largely exported to Calcutta for building pur- poses. About 14% m. eastward of the station is the famous Ghat of Tribenit on the Hughli. A pleasant shady road leads from the station to this holy place, which is considered by the Brahmans as one of their most sacred bathing-places. Bodies are brought from a distance of many miles to this ghat for burial in the holy stream. At Zyibenz, which is well worth a visit, are the ruins of, probably, the oldest Mosque and Madrasah in Lower Bengal. They were founded in 1298 by Zafar Khan, a warrior saint, whose tomb lies close to the river. There is a large artificial bund from Tribeni, crossing the line at the Mugra station, and extending for several miles into the country to the westward. The tradi- tion is that it was once the boundary between Bengal and Orissa. ‘The great ghat was built by Mukund Deo, the last King of Orissa, (killed 1567.) ‘Tribeni’ means ‘three streams,’ being at the point where the Saraswati on the west, and the Jabuna on the east leave the Hughli. From this point, the railway leaves the Hughli, and bends toward the north-west. The Mugrah viaduct is constructed of iron, over a stream through which the Damudar, now flowing twenty miles west, found, a century ago, its passage to the Hughli river at Nya Serai, north of Hughli, but the channel became obstructed by sand, and it has made for itself a new bed, entering the river near Diamond Harbour, and forming, by its sands, the ‘James and Mary” shoal, the great terror of ship-captains. Pundooah, (/Pandua or Perua,) 39 m., a Musalman village of 2,000 families, formerly noted for its manufactories of native paper, marks the northern limit of the growth of the cocoanut tree, which does not flourish beyond this, as it re- quires the influence of the sea breeze. Pandua was once fortified with a wall and deep trench 5 miles in circumference, the remains of which may be still traced round the town. The railway station occupies a part of the site of this wall. up, and no port dues were levied. The commerce and ship-building went to Hugli. The old fort of Satgaon is also called Husainabad, and is ascribed to Husain Shah, King of Bengal. The ancient fame of the town still lives in the modern proverbial phrase ‘‘ clever like a Satgaon man.” A few years ago the masts of a ship and anchors were found in the bed of the river near Satgaon ; and in excavating the foundations of the viaduct in 1851, a few ounces of quick-silver were found in the soil at a depth of about 5% ft., which most likely belonged to some ship’s instruments,UTS bicoeeieliiiieie ines EE bes eset iaretarer ilscis Tri ieevitere nT is ties eesiele revi Tel sioraa! 8 THE TOURIST’S GUIDE. The Zvzwer on the right hand, 120 feet high, visible from the railway, one mile from the station, is of Buddhistic origin, and is well worth a visit, for the view to be obtained from its summit, which commands a range over a wide extent of country as far as Hughli. An iron rod runs up to the top, which the pilgrims, who come here in January, say was Shah Safi’s walking stick. Nearly opposite it is the tomb of Shah Safi, the leader of the Musalman troops against the Hindus, who received a defeat on this spot. A Muhammadan having, at a feast given on the birth of his child, killed a cow, buried the bones, in order not to give offence. But the bones were dug up by jackals; the Hindus rose ez masse, and demanded vengeance on the murderer of a cow. The people seized the child as the cause, and killed it. The Muhammadan appeal- ed to the Raja, but could obtain no redress, on which he picked up the bones and went to Delhi; the Emperor Firtz Shah II., sent an army under his relation Shah Safi, who de- feated the Hindus in a pitched battle. The battle of Pandua took place about A. D. 1300. The.battle-field lay to the west of the railway station. ‘The tradition goes that the place was impregnable, in consequence of a sacred tank (200 yards west of the railway station) which possessed the property of restor- ing to life the soldiers that were killed; but by a stratagem of the Moslems, a piece of cow’s flesh was thrown into it, which destroyed its power. Shah Safi, the conqueror, after- wards livedalife of peaceable seclusion in Pandua, devoted to religious contemplation, 125 3 148 29 146 | IIo 134 a IN DE Xx Broach Burdwan Burriarpur Buxar i. Burhampur Byculla Caves of Ellora CAWNPORE Chandni Chakund Chandernagore Chandusi Chinsura Chunar Colgong Connaghur Damaun Daulatabad DARJEELING... DELHI Deoband Deolalee Dholpore Dildurnagar Dinapore Digh Dumraon Egutpoora Erinpoora Etawah Futtehpore Sikri Fyzabad Gaziabad Ghidhor Govardhan Gujranwalla ... Gushkara Gwalior GYA Page. 147 9 a 38 F27 134 130 52 197 I te a 1 OO, 153 38 132 I5I 62 76 46 83 19 32 137 20 82 49 IJ Haruppa Hooghly Howrah Hurda Hurdui ... Hyderabad ( Sczzee) Itarsi J acobabad Jagadree | Jamalpur Jamtara Jamul | JEYPORE Jhelum... | Joongshai Jounpore | JUBBULPORE Jullundar Jusra KARACHI Kalian .;., Khandwa Khanoo Khurmatar Kirtapore Kisnepeurh .. Kohat Kotri Kurhurbali Kusshalgarh Kussara LAHORE Lakki Serai Lala Musa Larkana Loodiana LUCKNOW Maharajpur_... 142 106 GY 17 19 152 137 143 45 119 IIo 117 143 134 127 IO 17 IIO 152 138 142 18 137 133 113 29 142 109 53 24156 Maijam Mankoor Mananpur Marble Rocksa. Markoondee Meean Meer Meerut... Mirzapore Monghyr Mogul Serai Montgomery Muddapur Mugrah... Mullalpore Multan Murshidabad Muraroi Wuttra... Muzaffarnagar a MUSSOORIE Myhere Mymaree Nalhati Nawadi Nandgam Nassick... Page. II {9 122 117 112 104 48 18 39 139 17 7 20 139 21 21 $I 105 106 118 9 21 19 | 101 131 INDEX. Page. Nynee 49, 118 Pachmari 126 Pakour 22 Raneecnir <.. II Pachora 128 Parell 146 Earasnath.: 3. 14, 13 Patna... 30 Peshawur 138 Phillour 109 Piparia 126 Pirpointi 25 Pundooalt --. 3. 7 Rajmahal _... 3 Rampore Haut 21 Ranigunge Rajpura 108 Rawal Pindi... 137 Rohri ... I4I Ruk 141 | Saharunpore... 105 Sahibganj 24 | Saktigurh 9 | Sambir Salt Lake 153 | I2 | Seetarampore .. Serampore Sehwan Shikarpore Sibi SIMLA:<. Simultalah Sirdhana Sirsawa Sirhind. .. Sukkur... Sultanpur Sutna Surat Synthea Tanna’... Tin-Pahar Tundla Junction Wiwir vi. | Umballa Umritsar Undal Wazirabad Zamanea Page. 13, 15 2 142 141 142 107 19 105 106 108 I4I 26 118 147 20 134 22 62ADVERTISEMENT. W. NEWMAN & CO., Caleutta, Booksellers and Publishers, Printers, Lithographers, & General Stationers. jt © SR Fresh Supplies of the Newest Publications received from Europe every fortnight. Newspapers and Magazines supplied. Publication of works of utility on Indian topics undertaken. 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