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Greater Britain; a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 choose

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[UK] C.W. Dilke Greater Britain 161: Spending but a single day in Madras [...] I passed on to Calcutta with a pleasant remembrance of the air of prosperity that hangs about the chief city of what is still called by Bengal civilians ‘The Benighted Presidency’.
at Benighted Presidency, the (n.) under Benighted, the, n.
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