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The principal branch of the Ganges beyond Go- 

 hindpour, now runs Eaft, and E. by N. and turning 

 pretty fharply round the point which is oppofite to the 

 prefent outlet of the Ma/iamindee, runs in a due fou- 

 thern courfe by Siiliangunge, and Godagary, as far as 

 Bogwangola ; which town, as I have hinted above, 

 has been always liable to fhift its lituation. My fur- 

 vey afcertains it to be S^- miles nearer to MoorJJmdabad 

 than it formerly flood ; but of this a more precife idea 

 may be formed, by comparing its prefent bearings 

 and diftance from Godagary, and Bomeneah, with thofe 

 which may be deduced from Major Rennell's map of 

 the CoITimbazar ifland. 



Bearing. Din. in Miles. 



Godagaiy to Bogwangola, by Survey (1797) S. 2 W. q 



Ditto to Ditto, bv former Surveys, S. 36 E. 9^ 



Bomeneah to Bogwangola, by Survey (1797) N. 21 E. 6 



Ditto to Ditto, by former Surveys, N. 50 E. gX 



From Bogwangola the river turns to the eaftward, 

 and the ftream ftrikes with peculiar force upon a deep 

 and crumbling bank, which indicates that the en- 

 croachment is ftill carried on rapidly below that place. 

 The appearance of this bank was fuch as I fcarcelv re- 

 membered to have feen ; and it would have been dan- 

 gerous to approach it in fome parts, as the fragments 

 which were, every now and then, detached from it, 

 would have been fufficient to fink the largeft boat. In 

 dropping down with the ftream, which ran at the rate 

 of near 6 miles in the hour, I could very fenfibly feel 

 the undulations which the huge portions of the falling 

 bank produced in the water, at the diftance of upwards 

 of a hundred yards; and the noife with which they 

 were accompanied, might be compared to the diftant 

 rumbling of artillery, or thunder. I am convinced, 

 that had any boat attempted to track up under this 

 2 bank 



