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tensive regions besides Bengal, taking that even in the most ex- 

 tended sense of the Mogul province of the name ; for in Hindu 

 geography, Vanga, [from whence Bengal is a corruption, is ap- 

 plied to only the eastern portion of the Delta of the Ganges, as 

 Upavanga is to the centre of this territory, and Angga to its wes- 

 tern hmits. 



I commenced this survey after the rainy season of 1807, with 

 the English district of Dinagepore (Dinajpura), forming part of 

 the ancient kingdom of Matsiya, bounded by the Mahananda on 

 the west, by the Korataiya (Latine Coratasa) on the east, by the 

 mountains on the north, and by the Padma or eastern branch of 

 the Ganges on the south. This district is not very favourable 

 for the botanist, being in general highly cultivated; but its 

 southern parts, especially round the ancient city of Purua, are 

 woody, and yielded a considerable increase to my collection. 



In spring 1 808, having finished the survey of Dinagepore, I 

 passed through the English district of Rungpur (Ranggapur), 

 the Kamrupa of the ancient Hindus, and having examined the 

 north-eastern wastes of that territory, where I added much to 

 my botanical stores, I halted for the rainy season at Goyalpara 

 (Latine Goalpara). This place, situated at the northern extre- 

 mity of the mountainous district, which bounds the Gangetic 

 Plain on the east, afforded me most ample employment as a bo- 

 tanist, producing a variety of beautiful and rare plants, almost 

 equal to that of Nepal ; and, with my journeys to Ava and Cha- 

 tigang, enabled me to form a proper estimate of the vegetable 

 productions of Farther India (ultra Gangem), the China of the 

 Hindus, and which I have already described. 



With the fair weather of 1808 I recommenced the survey of 

 the Rungpur district, where I found an excellent field for a bo- 

 tanist, as it contains many wastes. As the rainy season of 1809 

 approached, I retired to a house near the town of Rungpur, and 

 there continued, in a situation not very favourable for a botanist, 



