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on sale but no durians. After tiffin I took a carriage drive to the Botanical Gardens, situated across the river south of Howrah. There is only one bridge of any sort over the Hoogly to Howrah & this we crossed crowed in with [[strikethrough]] other [[/strikethrough]] the traffic. The gardens flank the river and are very spacious, 200 acres of level land intersected by small lakes & ponds. The whole is a lawn with groups of trees all labeled as to species. One of the sights is a great banyan tree, a sort of forest in itself. It has 560 aerial roots, is 900 feet in spread of crown, 53 feet in diameter of trunk & 148 years old. The only officer in the park I found in was the economic curator who [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] gave me