﻿14 ON THE COURSE OF THE GANGES 



The main dream of the Ganges, which now pafTes 

 near Sooty, runs in a louth-eafteriy dire61ion, from 

 thence towards Comrah and Gobindpour, the latter of 

 ■which is clofe on its bank. The villages o{ Saddagunge, 

 Singnagur^ Banpmrya^ Burrumtola^ Narrainpour^ Sir. 

 collypoicr, and Soondery^ no longer exifted according 

 to the pofitions which were afcribed to them in the old 

 maps, * fome having been entirely deftroyed, and 

 others re-eftablifhed, under the fame or different 

 names, acrofs the river, and partly upon the new formed 

 illand of SundeepaA 



The quantity of land which has been here deftroyed 

 by the river, in the courfe of a few years, will amount, 

 upon the moft moderate calculation, to 40 fquare 

 miles, or 25,600 acres; but this is counterbalanced, 

 in a great meafure, by the alluvion which has taken 

 place on the oppoFite fliore, and by the new ifland of 

 Sundeepa, which laft alone contains upwards of xo 

 fquare miles. 



The main ftream of the Ganges, which, by Major 

 Rennell's map, appears to have paiTed within a mile 

 and half of Nabohgunge^ is now removed to a confide- 

 rable di (lance from that place ; and the channel from 

 thence almoft down to Godagary, having been a good 

 deal contraBed, in confequenceof the diverfion of the 

 ftream to the fouthward of Nilcontpour ifland, is now 

 confidered as the continuation and outlet of the Maha- 

 nuddee river. The inflection in the courfe of the Gan- 

 ges produced by the encroachment towards Sooty^ 

 Comrah^ and Gobindpoiir, has encreafed the diftance by 

 water from Turtipour to Godagary, in the dry feafon, 

 to 26 miles ; whereas by the maps it appears to have 

 been formerly little more than 18. 



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* See Major Rennell's Map of the Coflimbazar Ifland, 

 T See the Plan which accompanies this Memoir. 



