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es rca been rising within a very recent period, and may still be 
, owe their elevation to the thrust from the North which has 
elevated the Peg) aie History, tradition, and even ocular 

sineeen in this no 
Diagram No, T ‘shows, i in black, the country just North and 
ee of the main channel of the Kosi River as it exists cai with- 
the line of the hills, and, in red, the same area as surve by 
Henne and published in his famous atlas of 1783 ; the say ha of 
towns mar in red are identical in both the old ‘and recent maps 
and rr have been used as the fitting points between the two 
surveys; there are, ‘indailitediy, many discrepancies in Rennell’s 
maps, but the area covered by “Diagram No. 1 can , at any rate up 
to the hills, be considered as jolene accurate, since the positions 
of most of the main towns and villaves are correct according to 
our existing maps. The area inside po hills is not as correct as 
it might be, but, fortunately, in 1767 Kinloch marched up the 
Comla (Kamla) River and mapped his route, and it is from 
Kinloch’s work that Rennell buts in that portion of his map. The 
distance [from Mynathpur he point marked X (in red) in 
map in this vicinity. A further point in favour of Rennell is that 
our own maps of this neighbourhood are not based on a careful 
detailed pith 
Examining the diagram, we find that in 1767 the Comla 
(Kamla) a right through the Siwaliks, while to-day it rises 
in them ; further, on reaching” the point X, Kinloch noted a st rong 
flowing from the North, probably the main stream of the 
old Kamla, and he found (or he would surely have noted it) no 
stream running to the east asthe main Kosi now runs. From X 
he turned westwards along the red stream shown in the diagram, and 
having followed it for some distance, he returned to Mynathpur by 
e had gone by. Now Rennell shows the west arm.o 
the old Kamla (the stream last mentioned above) as rising east of 
the present junction of the Tamba and Kosi, and here we meet the 
only really inaccurate point in Rennell’s map; the inaccuracy can 
however, be explained by the fact that Kinloch did not follow that 
stream to its source and that he may have given it an imaginary 
source in high land into which it disappeared from his view. Be 
this as it may, I think that there is little doubt iva that the stream 
carried the water of the Tamba Kosi to the point X, and there, 
receiving the waters of the Likhu Kosi, turned southwards, and 
ier as the Kamla for the rest of its course. 
may therefore suppose that the Likhu Kosi was the upper 
pene Baten of the Kamla, but the difference between the point x 



