JUNE 1766. 
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was sent in the beginning of May to finish the survey of the Curesa River & the 
Ragamatty Countrey. 
The ist. of June I set out from Dacca for Luckypour, & the 3d. at Night 
arrived there. The 4th. employed in procuring Coolys &c. for the Baggage & the 
5th. began to measure the Roads from Luckypour towards the Fenny River. 
The Course from Luckypour to the Fenny is almost Fast. Four miles & a 
quarter from Luckypour we crossed a Nulla named Rummutcally which runs from 
thence to the Westward & falls into the Megna. This Nulla is the limit of the 
Company’s Lands to the Eastward: the Countrey is open & cultivated, and quite 
destitute of Trees. * 1 The Revenues of the Company’s Lands here are said to be 8,000 
Rupees P. Annum. The Rummutcally Nulla is 50 yds. broad & too deep to be forded. 
From the Nulla the Countrey begins to be rather more close, & the Roads 54 
broken; the Countrey lies excessive low & must be several Feet under Water during 
great part of the Rains. 
The first Village of any Note from Luckypour is Chandergunge distant 15 miles 
from the former; this Village is situated in the Purganna of Amidabad, 2 * which is an 
extensive & fertile Province. The Countrey about Chandergunge is very full of Betel 
Trees; the Roads are in general broken. 
Colinda or Koilindy is the next Village of any Note & situated E \ N from 
Chandergunge distant by the roads 14I miles. The Roads between those two places 
are in general very bad, & the Countrey excessive low & at this Time overflown near a 
foot, but it is notwithstanding extremly fertile, & produces great Quantities of Padda, 
& some Betel Nut. I saw but little Cotton growing, so that the immense quantitiet of 
Cotton used in the Manufacture of their Cloths must be brought from distant Places.* 
There is a small Factory at Colinda 4 for collecting coarse Cloths, of which a 55 
prodigious Quantity are manufactured in these Parts. The whole Countrey here- 
abouts appears to be very scarce of Bamboos. 
From Colinda the Roads are still worse & worse as you proceed towards the 
Fenny. The Course inclines to the ESE. About 6 miles from Colinda we crossed 
the Daddanacherra Creek thro’ which the Tides flow almost up to Colinda. This 
Creek is only passable at half Tide. Two miles beyond this we crossed a River 
named the little Fenny thro’ which the Tide flows regularly all the Year. The 
Cospour on his way to it, in 1763, was informed by his Meckley guides, that after passing the first ridge of mountains 
beyond Cachar, he would find a fertile and well inhabited country all the way to Ava. He, however, went no further 
than Cospour,” on account of the difficulties of the country (Imp. Gaz., Vol. IX. p. 251). The journey was undertaken 
in response to “ an invitation made by the Raja of Meckley to assist him in obtaining redress for some grievance he 
complained to have suffered from the Burmas, and enclosing a paper of articles of alliance which the Raja had 
tendered to be executed between him and us for this purpose ” (Consultation in Council 4 th Oct 1 ' 1762. Wheeler, Early 
Records, p. 291). 
The ‘ Meckley ’ of Rennell is the State of Manipur, a corruption of the Assamese ( Makli ) or Kachari ( Mogli ) uame 
of the State (Hobson Jobson, p. 597). One of the subdivisions of Cooch Beliar State, a relic of the old Koch Kingdom 
of Assam, is called Mekhliganj. 
1 In 1754 the country about ‘ Tuckepur ’ was “almost entirely uncultivated” (Long, Selections, No. 127, p. 48). 
2 Ahmirabads of the ‘ Bengal Atlas.’ 8 The cotton is grown in Hill Tipperah and the Chittagong Hill Tracts. 
* Kaliyaudi. Hunter says (Stat. Acc. Beng., Vol. VI, p. 288) : “ At the end of the last century Kaliyandi must have 
been a place of considerable importance, as its name appears in all the old maps. At the present day, however, it has 
completely relapsed into jungle.’ ’ The trade in cotton cloths is said to have amounted to £120,000 a year. 
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