^water’s edge, forming .a dark line, juft marking the diftinc-
tion between Iky and water, are the only objedfs-to be ften.
As ths-ftiip approaches d&cuferih^river narrows j that which
is rail«! the Garden Reach, prefents a view of hpndfome buildings
| >6n a ftatfOTrbtindedby.gaFdene': .fheftr are. vflk®d54®g^
ing to the,opulent mhdbkants of Calcutta; > "The veflfel--has> no
faohergaihed-'bnoofher reach o f the-river than the whole'city
o f Calcutta burftsupOn the9eyeV -This- capital -of ftje'BfitHh
dominions hi the.-Eaft-is marked by a \Confidemblfe iertrefs,
On ihe'T6'u9i' 'fide o f the^verv Which is '^allowed m ibr,- in
ftf ength^anft* ddrt^&ieis of defign, juperior to any in'India.
On-tlrc ifore ground-of the pidture >is the water-gate, of-the
fort,, which reftedts great honour on the talents of the en^i-
j g g O t t w i S i t e Colonel Pelier,; The-glacls d p a -
nade arefeen in perfpedtive,’ bounded by a range of beautiM
. &uf regularibniMng&j and a confiderable; «each- Of the-river.,
with veffels o f various claffes and ftzes, from -the largeft fe -
diamen to the fmalleft boat'of the country, clofes the feene.
A plate, reprefenting this view, from a pidture taken on the
fpot, and admirably .engkted by Mr. Byrne, an artift whofe
reputation is not to be raifed by any eulogium in this place, is
'^annexed.
A E uropean lands here in the midft of a great city,
without pafling the outer draw-bridges of a fo rt: here are
no'centinels with the keen eye of fufpicion, no ftoppage of
baggage. The hofpitality which a ftranger experiences from