Hooghley

Fayrer 14.111 mentions shark-bites in the Hooghley.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Whilst Mr. Clive, with the other members of the committee, was engaged in settling the affairs of Calcutta, some spies came in with the news that the town of Hooghley lay very open to attack, the garrison being greatly dismayed and ready to give up the place on very slight provocation.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

We had no certain information at this time as to the whereabouts of the English ships, but supposed them to be lying somewhere about the mouth of the Hooghley.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

Long before we reached the Hooghley she had recovered from the ill effects of her imprisonment, and moved about the ship with that command which her beauty gave to her.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

This little army under Colonel Clive marched slowly up the bank of the Hooghley, while Admiral Watson followed and escorted us with his fleet.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

But with most of the others, from Mr. Drake downwards, it was different; and if the plunder of Hooghley had not brought in about a lac and a half of rupees, about this time, into the

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

East India Company's factory at Fort William, on the river Hooghley, where her father did business in drugs and was amassing, according to report, a considerable fortune.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

A week later the Admiral carried his fleet back to Bombay; but I had got my discharge, and was with Marian on board the sloop _Thetis_, of twenty-six guns, bound for the river Hooghley with despatches.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

"Are we like to make the Hooghley river, do you think, sir, when we get out to the Indies?"

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

Of these Omichund's house, now occupied by the Nabob, lay about a quarter of the way along the ditch, from the point where it joins the river Hooghley at the north end of the enclosure.

Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894