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by district officials, but derived, when their source is finally reached, from the often 
hardly responsible statements of the village watchman. 
Buchanan was liberally supplied with everything that was required for the success- 
ful accomplishment of his gigantic task, save one. He entered the service of Ње 
Company after his thirty-second birthday, and had already completed 11 years of 
service when the huge survey began. It is therefore no matter for surprise, though it 
certainly is for regret, that the survey was never completed. 
Buchanan’s time was wholly occupied in the work for eight years, from the rainy 
season of 1807 till the hot weather of 1814, and the marvel, when the sustained high 
quality of his work is considered, is that during so short a period һе accomplished во 
much as he did.’ 
The itinerary outlined in the original instructions was not precisely followed. The 
survey commenced towards the close of the rainy season of 1807, not with Rangpur 
but with the district of Dinajpur, and the examination of this district having dedit 
finished early in 1808, Buchanan began the survey of the north-eastern рой of 
Rangpur, which district then included a considerable part of what is now Lower Assam 
By the commencement of the rainy season of 1808 he had reached Goal a 
had his head-quarters till th para, where he 
ай his head-quarters till the advent of the ensuing cold weather. He then continued 
his investigation of Rangpur till the onset of the rains of 1809. During the i5 
monsoon his head-quarters were in a house close to the town f Š - 
left, as the end of the rai of Rangpur; this he 
š; e end of the rains approached, for Purnea, the district i 1 : 
з А 100 1пуезйса{е1 during th 
cold weather of 1809—10. The rains of 1810 were passed in í т 
quarters at Nathpur, near the Nepalese frontier, and during his stay here Fi зен» 2. 
carefully organised efforts to obtain information as Weands Nepal supple = _ 
acquired by him іп 1809—03. When the cold weather of тас ш sedes о гыз 
took up the survey of the adjacent district of Bhacal h h орап, Buchanan 
"I agalpur which lies partly to th h 
partly {о the south of the Ganges. Having finished his work for +h у e north, 
southern part of the distriet, Buchanan fixed hi с шаш ш 
1811 at Monch , ; xed his head-quarters for the monsoon of 
811 a onghyr. When the rains were over he undertook the в f 
districts of Gaya and Patna, which Ке wu аву of the two 
Nod fox › о the south of the Ganges, finishing up his 
е season at Patna which b : : EBD 
1819. The : ecame his head-quarters during th š 
ç Seasons of residence at Monch g the rains of 
things, i 4: ; onghyr and Patna were utilized 
89 ш studying, with the assist n; aes ; among other 
audi d) ance of a Hindu Physician, both i 
in the bazar, the characters and TE E : ; both in the field 
Behar." Quitting Patna on the advent of th à 8 various officinal plants of South 
dy wer CIS rey of шы ea, тоер 
still south of the Ganges. When iie rain f Sh e с сы 
journey up the Ganges to Allahabaa : d Li set in Buchanan embarked on a 
ч journey he was able to visit and obtai сте ES Jumna to Agra. During 
mine at Panna. Leaving Agra before th ы information regarding the Diamond 
e close of the rains he dropped down- . 
stream to the mouth of the Goera : 
e ded ` 1 Ф " og sailing = i 
— he investigated during the cold and s ur сраз э = 
' The subsequent treatment n ; 
^ i . 
of the information he accumulated and the fate of th 
troversy, This controversy о records Np lett “have been 
the survey and Buchanan’ е moment it is 
