Fifteen foreigners setting out in the 18th century to discover Calcutta! How did Charnock's City impress them? In Calcutta in the 18th Century: Impressions of Travellers are collected their queer accounts in their own quaint language. The accounts are reproduced verbatim here for the sake of readers who need not, any more, hunt those rare books and journals, Biographical details given by the compiler will enable them to study these accounts in their proper perspective. Discover 18th century Calcutta when the Tamaring tree of the Old English Burial Ground was no less a botanical wonder than the great Banyan today.