17. Two Letters of Major James Rennell. 
By Rev. W. K. Firmincer, B.D., F.R.G.S. 
Mr. T, D, la Touche prints as an appendix to his Journals 
of Major James Rennell (Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of 
APO Vol. III, No. 3 pp. 95—248) a letter of Rennell’s 
hich I came acrossin 1910 when inspecting the proofs of 
baa printed and unpublished records of the Comptrolling 
Council of Revenue at Murshidabad. Last year, while studying 
the Consultations of that Council preserved at the Record 
i sr of the vee hon e, I came across the two following 
s ’teens, who has made a mess of Rennell’s arene and 
even given **Thos’’ instead of ‘‘ Jas’’ as part of the signature. 
In the Major’s map of Bengal, reproduced in Mr. D. la 
Touche’s Memoir, the spelling of the following places mentioned 
in the letter is as follows :— 
In the letters— In the map— 
Beleuchy. 
Radshy Raujeshy. 
Pucharyah Pookareeah, 
‘*Mustan Ghurr’’ is, I take it, Mustangur marked on the 
map as on the road between Seebgunge and Seerpore rat r 
in Bogra District). Mustanghur may be identified with Mahas- 
than, the ancient capital of the Pods. This identification 
suggests points of great historical interest. 
Comptrolling Council Revenue, Murshidabad. 
Consultation, 14th Feb. 1771. 
To SamMvurEL MippierTon, Esq., | 
Chief of the Comptrolling Council of Revenues. 
BELUCHY. 
10th Feb., 1771. 
Str, 
I think it is my duty to inform Mie that there is now in 
this part of the country a large b of fakirs who are laying 
all the principal towns. under Sostabatsba. They were yester- 
