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MS-B.771.056
23 May 1771:472,473 (1/12)
Extract of a letter from an Officer at Bengal, dated
Calcutta, Sept. 4, 1770.
You will undoubtedly receive very shocking accounts of
the famine that has made such terrible ravages in the
provinces of Bengal . . . [11 lines] Hunger drives many of
them to such distress, that the strongest frequently in some
parts of the country, fall upon the weaker and devour them.
Balls, concerts, and all public entertainments, ought to
subside at this time of general scarcity; but I am sorry to
say they have not; and under the doors and windows of these
places of amusement lie many dead bodies, and others again
in all the agonies of death, despair and want . . .
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