According to the assertion of the before mentioned Capuchin, Father Marcus a Tumba, who resided a long time as missionary at _Patna_ and _Tschandranagar_, the _Chandernagor_ of the French, the flux and reflux of the sea extend, by means of the Ganges, more than sixty leagues into the country, so that ships of war can proceed that far up the river. On the _Dèva_ or _Sarayuva_ vessels can go even to Delhi, and on the river _Son_ to _Rotasgar_. The English possess, on the Ganges, the cities of _Calcutta_, _Monguiri_, _Patna_, _Benares_, and _Allahabad_ or _Eleabad_, and have at all these places factories, fortresses, governors, and collectors of the public revenues. The province of Bengal alone brings them an annual income of above three millions sterling. It appears from a letter of Mr. Hastings, formerly governor-general of Bengal, that the English ships which sailed from that settlement between the 1st of December 1782, and the 1st of January 1784, had on board goods to the value of two _cores_ (or _codi_) and sixty-five lack of rupees[33]. A rupee is equal in value to five Roman _paoli_; a hundred thousand rupees make one lack; and a hundred _lac_, a _core_ or _codi_. This immense sum was exported too at a time when the English were involved in a war with the Indian princes; but to how much will their exports at last amount in times of war?--Their great revenues will and must infallibly decrease hereafter; for, in the first place, the natives are too much oppressed: 2dly, In a state of continual warfare and plundering, agriculture is neglected: 3dly, Trade and manufactures decline: 4thly, The country is ruined by monopolies: 5thly, An immense quantity of specie has been drawn from it of late years; and at present much fewer rupees and pagodas are seen in circulation than formerly[34].