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in great undulating plains, wild and little 

 cultivated, and on the rise of the last 

 of these undulations stands the house of 

 Chetterpur, facing the sea at a distance 

 of three or four miles. A miniature lake, 

 half a mile wide, and extending three 

 miles northward to the Ganjam River, 

 lies at the foot of the slope, and beyond it 

 a plain of sand two miles wide stretches 

 to the sea beach. A sheet of water of 

 this size is called in Ganjam a " tum- 

 pra." The one at Chetterpur is one of 

 those lagoons of which I have spoken, 

 formed by the accumulations of sand 

 which close the mouths of the rivers and 

 also hold back the surface drainage from 

 the sea. Wild duck and teal seldom 

 resorted to this tumpra, but I have shot 

 pelican there, and often seen the osprey 



