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ܠ . ७२५ ইংরেজের জয় । । struck by lightning. I determined to reproduce this meniorial with as much fidelity as possible in white marble, to re-erect it on the same site, and to present it as my personal gift to the city of Calcutta in memory of a never-to-be-forgotten episode in her history, and in honour of the brave men whose life-blood had cemented the foundations of the British Empire in India. This pillar accordingly, which I am about to unveil is the restoration to Calcutta. Of One of its most famous landmarks of the past, with some slight alteration of proportion, since the exact dimensions of Holwells original pillar Were found to be rather stunted when placed in juxtaposition to the tall buildings by which it is now surrounded. There is some reason to think, from the evidence of Old maps, that the ditch in which the bodies were interred and the earlier monument above them were situated a few yards to the eastward of the site of the new monument : and I had excavations made last Summer to see whether we could discover either the foundations of Holwell's obelisk, or any trace of the burial below them. The edge of the old ditch was clearly found, but nothing གང་ཆེ་ more. However, that we are within a few feet--- of the spot where those I 23 corpses were cast on the morning of the 2 1st Of June 1756, there can be in O shadow of a doubt, and their memory is now preserved, I hope for ever, within a few yards of C