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SHIPPING IN THE HOOGHLY

Year by year the shipping which enters Calcutta through the tortuous and shifting channel of the Hooghly increases in value and in volume. The Hooghly pilot is a great personage, and he deserves his fame, for only incessant watchfulness, a clear head, and a thorough knowledge of his profession, can enable him to bring the great steamships safely up tha river. From day to day the sandbanks change their form and position; and current and depth of water change with them. The P. & O. and the British India Companies are the great mainstay of the Calcutta trade, but the total entry of shipping is made up from the merchant navies of all nations, who take advantage of the free trade which is accorded to all comers under the British flag.
Date between 1897 and 1899
date QS:P,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source The Queen's Empire. Volume 3. Cassell & Co. London
Author Various authors for Cassell & Co.
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