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OCTOBER— NOVEMBER 1765. 
The 1 6th. the Weather appearing to be settled, we set out from Diagunge & got 
to Demra 1 in the Evening, when the Wind settled in the NE Quarter. 
The 17th. a thick foggy Morning, being the first for the Season, & I remarked 
that the first Morning of this kind last year happened the 21st. of October. For the 
remainder of the Weather see the last Pages of the Journal. 2 
The 19th. in the Morning came to the outlet of Bermya Creek, which is a Branch 
of the Baramputrey falling into the Euckya River near Simulya. As this Creek had 
not been surveyed, I struck thro’ it in order to trace it to the Baramputrey. 
4 The 22nd. in the Afternoon came into the Baramputrey near Toak & opposite 
to the Village of Akarasonda, 3 having traced the Bermya Creek whose Course is very 
crooked, & the Banks everywhere covered with Jungles & Woods. We saw but one 
Village the whole way, which is that of Bermya, situated on the Western Bank of 
the Creek, & about 8J miles WSW from Akarasonda. Four miles NE from this 
Village the Creek receives another small Creek from Bagunbary, but it is not 
navigable all the Year. 
The Current of the Baramputrey appeared to be much stronger this Time than 
when we passed through it before; occasioned I imagine by the Waters falling off. 
The 23d. at Noon took an Observation of Lat d . at Ossunpour/ by which that 
Place lies in 24°-26' N d . 
The 25th. in the Evening arrived at the Place where we left off surveying in 
July last, near Baganbary, & prepared for surveying next day. Found f he Magnetic 
Variation at this Place o°-32 / Westerly. 
In coming up the River we have been employed in copying the original Survey 
of the Baramputrey & Euckya River for the Governor. 
5 The 26th. continued the Survey of the Baramputrey from the old Mark, 
towards Chilmary & Gwalpara, & from this Time to y e 10th. November (15 days) 
employed in tracing it by a cursory Survey from Sunacalley 5 to the Mouth of the 
Dherla River 3 which is upwards of 76 miles. The Western Bank betwixt Baganbary 
& Dewangunge being laid down in July last by a cursory Survey, I omitted going 
over it again; but from Dewangunge to Chilmary the Countrey was too much over- 
flown at that Time to lay down the River Bank with any tolerable exactness, so that 
that part was surveyed again, & accordingly appears very different in particulars 
from the Map which was sent in August last. 
cause much damage. As I write these notes (19 th Oct 1 ' 1909) one has devastated the E.B S. Railway station at Goa- 
lundo, caused some loss of life, and destroyed a number of steamers anchored there. 
1 At the junction of the Naranda creek with the Rakhmia. 
* See pp. 63 to 65 . 
3 A large village at the head of the Rakhmia river, the Egarasindhur of history. It was a seat of the famous Isa 
Khan, the founder of the Maimansingh family, who is mentioned by Ralph Pitch in 158b as “ Isacau the cliiefeof all the 
other kings, and a great friend to all Christians” (Ryley, Ralph Fitch, p. 119). A battle is said to have taken place 
here between Isa Khan and Raja Man Singh, Akbar’s famous Hindu General (Rankin). The Rakhmia and the Bermya 
creek run through the heart of the Madhupur Jungle, the elevated tract of country extending from the Meghna to the 
Brahmaputra, already referred to (p. 45). 
* Ante, p. 47. 
6 A village on the left bank of the Brahmaputra opposite Maimansingh. 
'* The Dharla river joins the Brahmaputra at Bagwa, above Chilmari. 
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