The Statistical Reporter May 1876

The country generally referred to includes the islands at the mouth of the Megna and the mainland between the Megna and the Big Fenny on the east the old boundary of the Moghul empire. [...] From the year 1666 the date of the subjugation of the Portguese in the Bay of Bengal and the conquest and capture of Chittagong from the Arakanese by the Moghul Government to 1760 when British influence began to be felt there still was a period of unsettled government in which the violence and greed and cruelty of men under little or no restraint were openly displayed in harrying the coun [...] The outline of the country and plan of defence resemble the ancient and recently reorganized coast defences of Somersetshire near the Weston and Bridgewater Bays where the country is similarly exposed„ and intersected by the Axe and the Brae and the Bridgewater river and its confluents the Parrot and the Tone. [...] The hails of -Mysore and the the south are the pagodas of Europeans which in 1796 were the principal part of the remittance annually made from Madras to Bengal caused by the balance of trade in favour of the latter province. [...] ECONOMIST March 11th 1875.) THE most important event of 1875 as regards the bullion trade is the fall in the price of silver arising (1) from the pressure of the sales on account of the demonetisation of silver in Germany and (2) from the more permanent cause of the sudden and progressive increase in the production of silver in California and along the Pacific coast.