146 GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



tufted, and cinnamon colored, with a line of the fame color 

 reaching from each to the throat ; backlide and much of the 

 tail a rich purplilli cinnamon, the reft of the tail yellow. 



Gangetic Hindoostan. 



The Gakgss. The extremity of the bay of Bengal^ the antient Sinus 



Gangeticus, appears filled with toe trail; through which once 

 flowed its feven celebrated difcharges of the Ganges, of them 

 two only remain unclofed. 



The Hoocly. Hoogly river (the greateft and moft ufeful difcharge) opens 



with its vaft mouth fomc leagues to the north-eaft of the 

 Subanreeka river. It retains its name at left as high as the town 

 of Hoogly. The part which opens into the bay of Bengal is 

 properly an eftuary, and continues fo till it winds half round the 

 ifle of Culpy ; that done, its channel is nearly due north, bend- 

 ing eafterly as it approaches Calcutta. For a great extent 

 before the entrance are numbers of longitudinal banks, formed 

 by the mud or fand brought down by the waters of the river, of 

 the fame form as thofe which lie before the mouth of the 

 Thames, and effedted by the fame means. They are infamous 

 for frequent wrecks, either of adventurers returning with the 

 wealth of years to infult with eaftern luxuries our contented 

 countrymen at home, or of /«^/^- bound youths filled with 

 pa^olian dreams, each thoughtlefs of the inevitable fate \vhich 

 awaits them in the gilded deeps of Hindoojlan. 



2 I SHALL, 



