Excerpt from The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India, Vol. 3 of 3: Compromising the District of Behar, Shahabad, Bhagulpoor, Goruckpoor, Dinajepoor, Puraniya, Ronggopoor, and Assam, in Relation to Their Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Fine Arts, Population, Religion, Education, Statistic Patna-j Although one of the chief cities in British India (it is nine miles long) has out of houses, 22, l88 mud walled huts covered with tiles and about similar wretched tenements covered with grass, vol. I, p. 37. Paving, cleaning and lighting are totally out of the question. P. 36. It is difficult to ima ine a more disgusting place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.