Travel in India or City Shrine and Sea-Beach. Antiquities Health Resorts and Places of Interest on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway

Eventually in 1756 the trouble with Suraj-uDaulah culminated in a seige of the city and of the old Fort William in the flight of the Governor and many Europeans in the slaughter of others in action and in the tragedy of the Black Hole in which died 123 of the x46 prisoners thrust into the soldiers' cell in Fort William after its capture. [...] Here marked in the pavement in front of the Post Office and the Custom House is the site of the Old Fort—that of the 1756 disaster which Holwell and a few loyal stalwarts defended to the Last gasp ; in a side entrance to the Post Office the position of the Black Hole has been located and perpetuated by a marble tablet ; at the north-western corner of Dalhousie Square rises in marble a replica [...] Not the least of these appeals to the artistic eye are its sunsets over the Hooghly lighting up the sky beyond the smoke of the mills in a gorgeous radiance ; the maidan tranformed into a world of black and silver under the great Indian moon ; the feasts of colour in the streets where the golden mohur and the Bougainvillaea creeper bloom side by side. [...] Here the forests recede a little from the line and one catches glimpses of the sidesfof steep grassy hills of the dip and roll of wooded headlands of emerald-fringed shoulders high above SARAND A. 43 of the whole mystery and wonder of the jungle of a remnant of the world as it was in the beginning. [...] The view from Bhaor Tonk tunnel produces one of the finest spectacles on the line of the wild lands of India while close by evidence of the legendary lore that forms a part of the life of the people is at hand in the banks of the river Amanala whicl are planted with mangoes along the whole length of their course.