10 
MAY 1764. 
Number of People as follows : 
i Assistant Surveyor 
3 other Europeans . 
ii Lascars 
1 1 Motias 1 
ii Sepoys 
i Interpreter 
In all 39 with myself 
We left the new Fort 2 at 3 pm, but the Tide prevented our Proceeding up the 
River this Night, so came to at Calcutta. Fine Weather all this day. 
The 8th at one in y e morning I was awakened by an alarm of y e Budgarow’s 
sinking, & indeed she was on the point of it, being 2/3 full of water. By this acci- 
dent I had most of my Stationary spoiled, & likewise a great part of my Cloathes. 
Stayed at Calcutta this Day, & repaired the Leak. In y e Evening proceeded up 
the River, & put ashore at Serampour ! for the Night. A smart NW Squall this 
Afternoon. 
4 The 9th. fair Weather. In y e morning at 8 went to take a View of Ghyrettyd 
Dined at Chendanagore, 6 & went to view the Ruins of the Fort and Town. Passed 
by Chinsura 6 at 4 in y e Afternoon and at Night put into Baunchbaria 1 Creek. This 
Creek is now 5 Cubits 8 deep at H. water, neap Tides. The River seems to be well 
described in Capt. Polier’s 9 Map. The Night clear. Fresh Breezes from y e Southwh 
The 10th. variable Weather. Passed by Betwallera Nullah, which appears to be 
nearly the same breadth as that of Baunchbaria. At 4 p.m. a smart Squall from the 
Southward whilst we were in the Betwallera Reach. The Budgarow sprung another 
Leak. Lay at Berespour this Night. 
the forms known under the generic name of ‘ Dinghy.’ It differed from the ordinary cargo-boat in having the planks 
laid edge to edge, and fastened by iron clamps (Hobson Jobson, p. 971). 
1 Motia. Hind. Motiya, a porter or cooly. 
2 The new Fort. This was the present Fort William, the building of which was begun by Dord Clive in 1757, to 
replace the old Fort, destroyed by Sira j-ud-D aula, the Nawab of Bengal, eight years previously. The new Fort was 
not completed, however, till 1773, during the Governorship of Warren Hastings. 
8 At this time Serampur was a Danish settlement. It lies on the Hugh, about 13 miles above Calcutta. 
•i Ghyretty, or Ghiretti, about 6 miles above Serampur. Here was situated the magnificent residence of the French 
Governors of Chanderuagore, supposed to have been built by Dupleix. Only the merest vestiges of the building now 
remain. (Bengal, Past and Present, Vol. i, No. 1, p. 68, PI. 4). Bishop Heber gives a description of the building in his 
Journal (Vol. i, p, 85). A portion of the European garrison was stationed here in Rennell’s time, at the cantonment of 
Champdani (Vausittart’s Narrative, Vol. iii, p. 277). 
6 Chendanagore. This is a more correct spelling than the present Chandarnagar or Chanderuagore. The name is 
properly Chandan-nagar = city of Sandalwood (Hunter, Imp. Gaz., Vol. iii, p. 356). It was bombarded by Admiral 
Watson in 1757, on the breaking out of war between England and France, and captured by Dol'd Clive. The fortifications 
and houses were afterwards demolished by Clive’s orders, in retaliation for the conduct of Count Dally in Madras. 
6 Chinsura. A Dutch settlement on the Hugli, a short distance above Hugh town. It was ceded to the British 
in 1825. 
^ Bansberia. Noteworthy as the site of the first Native Church founded in Bengal, and for its Hindu temples 
(see Bengal, Past and Present, Vol. ii, No. 1, pp. 74, 105). 
8 A cubit =18 inches, see p. 25. 
& A Captain Polier is mentioned several times by Orme in his “ History of Military Transactions in Indostan,” 
but he appears to have been mortally wounded at the siege of Fort St. George in December 1758 (Vol. ii, p. 393). 
In his ‘ Memoir of Hindoostan ’ Rennell acknowledges in several places the assistance given him by “ my friend 
Col. Polier” in obtaining material for the construction of his map. He was Chief Engineer at Fort William in 1762, 
but afterwards entered the service of the Nawabs of Oude, and of the Emperor of Delhi, and retired in 1788 
(Buckland, Diet. Ind. Biography, p. 339). 
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