( xii.) Sitaram Mitra, also known as Uttaram, acquired land at Baghbazar. This place populous now, and vocal with sound the twentyfour hours round, was then a boggy marsh, the haunt of wild beasts, features it shared with so many quarters of this now great city. Sitaram cleared the jungle, did something towards the draining of the marsh, constructed proper tanks, and built a house. A little later when Rajah Nobokishen, the founder of the Sovabazar Raj family, was given the grant of Sutanooti, in reward for his good faith and good services to the British, Uttaram left his Lambardarship of Baghbazar and turned his attention to the salt business, which throve mightily in his hands, and still more in the hands of his more famous son, Gokul Chandra Mitra. 6f a truth, though Uttaram brought the family to Calcutta and set the feet of his descendants, upon the ways of prosperity and righteousness, Gokul Mitra, still known to all orthodox Hindus as Sadhu Gokul, was the one who built most deeply and firmly the family house, establishing for ever its fortunes and its character. Many of the traits that distinguished Sadhu Gokul and won him the approval of his fellow men, and the very great favour of the Gods, are received in his greater-grandson, Vihari Tala, who, we trust, will be as fortunate and as deserving, as his great ancestor. Gokul Mitra's deep and genuine piety and multiplied good works gained him the title of Sadhu
