﻿TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



L 



ON THE 



Courje of the Ganges through Bengal, 



BY MAJOR R. H. COLEEROOKE. ' 



THE frequent alterations in the courfe of the 

 Ganges, and of other rivers which flow through 

 Bengal, have been a fubjecl of wonder to the gene- 

 rality of Europeans refiding in thefe provinces; al- 

 though to the natives, who have long witneffed fuch 

 changes, the moft remarkable encroachments of the 

 rivers, and deviations of their flreams, are productive 

 of little furprife. 



It is chiefly during the periodical floods, or while 

 the waters are draining off, that the greateft mifchief is 

 done; and if it be confidered, that at the diftance of 

 two hundred miles from the Sea, there is a difference 



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