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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tEcVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP1 ‪''Sketches of India; or, Observations descriptive of the scenery, &c., in Bengal. Written in India in the years 1811-14. With notes on the Cape of Good-Hope and St. Helena…''] ‬1816 Google Books. By an unknown author. Also available as a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005D8AC#?#loaded&c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1439.5689%2C-141.4444%2C4384.1378%2C2828.8889 British Library digital file]. The author has been described as "... certainly not in the services, shows no sign of having been in Company employ (although he is published by the booksellers to the HEIC), and gives no indication as to the purpose of his visit to India. We can only presume that he was a well-informed, and well-connected gentleman of means.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160917063443/https://www.vialibri.net/552display_i/year_1816_600_0.html ViaLibri list of books published in 1816] Scroll to book 13. Retrieved 17 September 2016.</ref>
*Calcutta and Bengal c 1819 commences [https://archive.org/stream/sketchesofindia00sherrich#page/106/mode/2up page 106], ''Sketches of India'' by 'An Officer for Fire-Side Travellers At-Home' [Captain Moyle Sherer] 2nd edition, with additions 1824 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TeYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4 ''The Road Book of India; or, East Indian traveller's guide through the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay''] by John B Seely, Captain Bombay Army. 1825 Google Books. Contains many place names.
*''Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire from the Official Records of the Colonial Office'' by Robert Montgomery Martin 1839 Google Books. ''Book IV- Possessions in Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PvtqMe2cxhoC&pg=PA273 "Chapter I-Hindostan"] pages 273-368
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/22666 ''Routes In The Bengal Presidency''] by Major Fred. Roberts 1865. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
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