৫৮২ दछल°र्मि । [ ৫ম বর্ষ, চৈত্র। মৃগনাভি, লঙ্কামরিচ প্রভৃতি জন্মে। তদ্ভিন্ন ইহা হইতে অনেক পরিমাণে ঘৃত সমুদ্রপথে নানাদেশে নীত হয় । বাণিয়ে সোনার ৰtংলার সৌন্দর্য্যের কথাও বিশেষরূপে বর্ণনা করিয়াছেন । রাজমহল হইতে সমুদ্র পৰ্য্যস্ত গঙ্গার উভয়তীরে বিস্তৃত ৰহুসংখ্যক नश्रब्र ७वरंथांछ, ३ऋ, गर्दन, ठिण, छूठ cथङ्कङि नांनांदिथ *ज़ ७ छेड़िएब्ज c*ांडिड थाख्द्रगञ्जूर हेशंरक cगोचरीमद्र कब्रि রাখিয়াছিল। অদ্ভিন্ন সংশ্রণালবেষ্টিভ, অরণ্যমুশোভিত ও আনারসাদি-নানাবিধফলপরিপূর্ণ "ইহার সৌন্দৰ্য্যবৃদ্ধি খাল ও অগণ্য-মধিবাসি-পরিপূর্ণ গ্রাম ও করিত। •
- “Egypt has been represented in every age as the finest and most fruitful country in the world, and even modern writers deny that there is any other land so peculiarly farouned by nature ; but the knowledge I have acquired of Bcngal during two visits paid to the kingdom, inclines me te believe that the pre-eminence ascribed to Egypt is rather due to Bengal. The latter country produces rice in such abundance that it supplies not only the neighbouring but remote states. It is carried up the Gangcs as far as Patna, and exported by sea to Muslipatam and many other ports on the coast of Coromondel. It is also sent to foreign kingdoms, principally to the island of Ceylon and the Maldives. Bengal abounds likewise in sugar with which it supplies the kingdoms of Golconda and the Carnatic, where very little is grown. Arabia and Mesopotamia, through the towns of Mokha and Bussora, and even Persia, by way of Bender-Abbassy. Bengal likewise is celebrated for its sweatmeats, especially in fores inhabited by Portuguese, who are skilful in the art of preparing them, and with whom they are on article of considerable trade. Among other fruits, they preserve large citrons, such as we have in Europe, a certain delicate root about the length of Sarsa parilla, amba and pine-apples, two common fruits of India, small mirobolani plums, which are excellent ; lemons and ginger. -
Bengal, it is true, yields not so much wheat as Egypt; but if this be a defect, it is attributale to the inhabitants, who live a great deal more upon rice than the Egypt. ians and seldom taste bread. Nevertheless, wheat is cultivated in sufficient quantity for the consumption of the country, and for the making of excellent and cheap sca biscuits, with which the crews of European ships, English, Dutch and Portuguese, are supplied. The three or four sorts of vegetables which, together with rice and butter. forts the chief aliment of the common people, are purchased for the merest trisle, and for a single rupée twenty or more good fowls may be brought. Geese and ducks are proportionably cheap. There are also goats and sheep in abundance ; and pigs are obtained at so low a price that the Portuguese, settled in the country, live almost entirely upon pork. This meat is salted at a cheap rate by Dutch and English, for the supply of their respective vessels. Fish of every species, whether fresh or salt, is in theosame profusion. 鮮 În a word, Bengal abouud's with every necessary of life ; and it is this abundance that has induced so many Portuguese, half-castes, and other Christians, driven from their different settlements by the Dutch, to seek an asylum in this fertile king’ dom. * * * In regard to valuable commodities of a nature to attract foreign merchants, I am acquainted with no country where so great a variety is found. Beside"
