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and wrote to Paris soliciting a copy of that portion of the map, which 

 related to the Sundarban. lie has this day sent nie a note which 

 I will take the liberty of reading to you, accompanied by the three 

 small tracings which I lay before you. Mr. Rainey says — 



" Agreeably to promise, I have much pleasure in forwarding 

 herewith the tracings of the three ancient maps of the G-angetic Delta 

 (Sundarban), which M. Cartamberd, the head of the Geographical 

 Department of the Bibliotheaue Imperiale, Paris, was good enough 

 to send out to me. 



You may recollect that in the course of the discussion on my paper 

 on the Sundarban, (vide the Society's Proceedings of December 

 last), the Rev. Mr. Long, made an allusion to a very old Portuguese 

 map of the existing Sundarban tract, which (the late lamented) M. 

 Jomarcl had shown to him, many years ago in Paris ; and, thinking 

 that a copy of it would prove very interesting and useful, I accordingly 

 applied to him for it. But that venerable French savant having 

 died, his successor, M. Cartamberd, kindly favoured me with the 

 tracings of the three maps I now transmit to you, and which I have 

 numbered as 1, 2 and 3, respectively. 



The first of them is said to be a map of the 16th century, and on a 

 reference to Barms' Da Asia in the Society's Library, I find it to be 

 an exact tracing of a part of the map there given to illustrate the 

 4th Dccada thereof. 



The second is stated to be taken from the chart of the kingdom 

 of the Great Mogul by N. Sanson, and is dated so far back as 1652. 

 This map like the other two, has no scale affixed to it, which desi- 

 deratum naturally causes much confusion. 



The third and last is set down therein as taken from the new map of 

 the kingdom of Bengal by order of the noble Sire Matthews Van den 

 Brouekc in the Atlas of Francor's Valentya to illustrate his work 

 entitled 'Old and New East India,' 1724. This appears to be the most 

 explicit and lucid of them all ; it clearly indicates the five towns, 

 v i Zi ;— Pacuculi, Ciupitanaz, Noldy, Tipuria, and Dapara, the last of 

 ■which is evidently the only place that can be recognized in the 

 Revenue Survey Map of Colonel Gastrel's. From the similarity of 

 position and name, it is evidently identical with the Daspara of the 

 present day, formerly (doubtless) a flourishing seaport town, but noio 

 an insignificant inland village. 



