﻿on On the course of the gangls 



track called " Old Courfe of the Ganges," in the 

 CoJ/imbazar ifland; or the channel which has been, 

 within thefe few years, fo completely filled up near 

 Jellinghy. Confidered in this way, the Ganges will 

 be found to occupy a confiderable expanfe, of 

 which a more corre6t idea may be formed, by taking 

 the di fiance between any two places oppofite to one 

 another, which had formerly been, or one of which 

 may ftill remain on the verge of, or in the vicinity of 

 the dream; for inltance, 



Miles. 



Oodanulla to the ruins of Gour, — — -15 



Furruckabad to ditto, — — — 14' 



Comrah to Nabobgunge, — — — lo-^- 



Comerpour to Bogwangola, — — 9^: 



Extreme breadth of river bed between? i 



I- 



Jellinghy and Maizeconda, i ^-^ 



li correfponding fe8:ions of the bed of the river, 

 and neighbouring, ground, were reprefented, it would 

 probably appear, that all the land is difpofed in re- 

 gular ftrata; whence we might with certainty con- 

 clude, that the w^hole had been at fome former period;* 

 depofited by the ftrcam. 



The ftrata, in general, confift of clay, fand, and 

 vegetable earth ; the latter of which is always upper- 

 moll, except when in fome extraordinary high flood, 

 ii new layer of fand is again depofited over it, by 

 which means the ground becomes barren, or is at 

 Jeaft materially injured. 



The bed of the Ganges can fcarcely be faid to be 

 permanent in any part of its courfe through Bengal. 

 There are, however, a few places, where, from local 

 caufes, the main channel, ^and deeped water, will pro- 

 bably be always found; as Mong/ur, SuUangunge, 

 Pattergotta^ Pointy^ SicriguHy, and E.ajemahl ; at 

 all which places there are rocky points projetling into 

 the dream, and where fome parts of the bed of the 

 liver are dony, or its banks cop.iid of conker. 



On 



