[102] Mootejyl, 19th April, 1766.
[103] Mootejyl, 25th April, 1766.
[104] Letter to Mr. Blomer, Dinagepore, 22d September, 1766.
[105] There can be little doubt that the ryot was in Bengal, as in other parts of India, in reality a proprietor of the land: a circumstance which afterwards, in making the permanent settlement, on English or Mussulman ideas, was unfortunately overlooked. See Colonel Briggs's valuable and too little known work, on the Land Tax in India. Lond. 1830. 8vo.
[106] Letter, 29th December, 1765.
[107] 8th July, 1765.
[108] 10th August, 1765.
[109] 28th August, 1767.
[110] Letter to Colonel Smith, 23d August, 1765.
[111] 21st May, 1766.