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noife, with a courfe due fouth into the fea, fo overpowering is 

 the weight of the torrent from the vaft expanfe, which ex- 

 tends to the great northern chain. A ftrong wind, which 

 fometimes blows in that feafon up the river, will item the cur- 

 rent fo far as to raife it two feet above its ordinary height. In 

 1763 a gale of this kind, confpiring with a great fpring tide, 

 raifed the waters fix feet, and totally overwhelmed a great 

 diftria: about Luckipotir, at the northern edge of the Sunder bund, 

 fifty miles from the fea, and fwept away the cattle, and all their 

 unhappy owners. 



I NOW regain the mouth of the Jellinghy river, where it Jellinghy. 

 difcharges part of the waters of the Ganges. The main river, 

 after a moft meandering courfe of above feventy miles, has 

 another communication with the fea through the Sunderbunds, 

 by means of a branch called the Cbundnab, feparates at Mab- 

 7nudpour, and terminates in the Hooringotta ; the wide channel Hoorixgctta. 

 I have mentioned at p. 150, and which is fuppofed to have been 

 one of the antient mouths of the Ganges. The branch I now 

 fpeak of, is the only one which is navigable at all feafons. 



Mabmudpour is placed to the north of the Sunderbunds, not Mahmudpour. 

 remote from an immenfe morafs. It feems to be the fame as 

 the Mabmoodabad of Abulfazel, ii. 11. which he calls a fort 

 furrounded with a marlli ; and adds, that when it was con- 

 quered by Sbeer Kban, fome of the Rajab's elephants fled into 

 the wilds, v^'here they increafed greatly ; he alfo lays, that this 

 country produces long pepper. 



Many miles below the mouth of this branch of the Ganges, 

 is another, in Lat. 23° 54', which takes an eaftern direction, and 



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