 | 1869 - 698 pages
...town he lived in was, when he first arrived. There are no stones, gravel, or other hard substances, within fifty leagues of Calcutta, with which to mend the roads. Burnt and brokeu bricks, are all the materials we have, and very expensive they are ; for lay them down as thick... | |
 | W.W. HUNTER - 1885 - 490 pages
...natives to go a little farther off. ' There are no stones, gravel, or other hard substances within 50 leagues of Calcutta with which to mend the roads....broken bricks are all the materials we have, and very expensive they are; for lay them down as thick as you will, so rotten is the soil that in two years'... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1885 - 488 pages
...natives to go a little farther off. 'There are no stones, gravel, or other hard substances within 50 leagues of Calcutta with which to mend the roads....broken bricks are all the materials we have, and very expensive they are ; for lay them down as thick as you will, so rotten is the soil that in two years'... | |
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... to the government, he added some new regulations, and gave a degree more power to the officers of police, divided the Black and White Town into thirty-five wards, and purchased the consent of the natives to go a little farther off. ' There are no... 