Crossword-Solution: CHANDERNAGOR 12 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence northeast as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns towards the east, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little, and, descending southeastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, ends at Calcutta.

The marvels of Bengal, Golconda, ruined Gour, Murshedabad, the ancient capital, Burdwan, Hugly and the French town of Chandernagor, where Passepartout would have been proud to see his country's flag flying, were hidden from their view in the darkness.

The first had practically called into existence the two colonies of the Ile de France and of Bourbon; the second had founded the town of Chandernagor, in the bay of Bengal, and, as governor-general of the French East India Company, had established himself at Pondicherry with all the luxury and more than all the luxury of a veritable Oriental prince.

That language was of course spoken by someone who came from Pondicherry, that small piece of country which, with Chandernagor, represents the French-Indian Empire of Du Plessis's time.

Wie beschrijft de verbazing der mannen, vrouwen en kinderen, van Hindoes zoowel als van Engelschen, op den grooten weg van Calcutta naar Chandernagor, toen zij in den vroegen morgen van den 6n Mei uit een der laatste voorsteden van de hoofdstad van Indië, tusschen twee dichte rijen nieuwsgierigen een vreemde equipage zagen te voorschijn komen,--indien men althans dien naam kan geven aan den zonderlingen toestel, die zich langs den oever der Hoogly voortbewoog.