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WNWjN 25 miles. The Countrey round Pyelapour is well cultivated and inhabited. 
Nearly opposite to the Village a small Creek from Caagmar 1 2 joins the Dolaserry, but 
it is shut up during y e dry vSeason. From Pyellapour Westwards the Countrey is an " 
entire Swamp or Jeel, so that it was with difficulty we could ascertain the Bed of the 
River. These Jeels are a continuation of the great Jeels of Chatmol & Hurriol. 
The Village & Grove of Gwalpara lie WBNJN 7 miles from Pyelapour, but the 
Course of the River between the two Places is very crooked. This Village is the 
Boundary of the Provinces of Dacca & Radshy. 3 4 * Here y e River comes in two 
Branches named the Andyadaw and Curatty Gonga. The Andyadaw is the North- 
most, & has the straitest Course, for which Reason we pursued our Route thro’ it. 
After going about 5 miles up the Andyadaw we came to Baljuree, where the 
Noigonga or Bailcoonsi River falls in. This River comes thro’ the Jeels, & in its 
way communicates with the Sheebgunge & Rumgpour Rivers. + The Village of 
Baljuree is known by two old red Pagodas lying a little to the Northward of it. 6 
Reaving Baljuree we enter the Comercally Creek which is narrow & communi- 
cates with several large Jeels. The Current is very rapid. At the end of this Creek 
which is about 2J miles from Baljuree we come to the head of the Curatty Gongah * 
(a Southern River left at Gwalpara) & entered a fine high Countrey. From the 
Comercally we entered the Gorki Creek which has a winding Course of about 2 \ or 3 
miles & then leads into a broad River named the Cantabotey. It is remarkable that 
almost the whole Body of Water which forms the Dolaserry is confined within y e 
space of 70 yards breadth in its Course thro’ the Gorki Creek. The Cantabotey River 
after a Course of 5 miles leads into the great Ganges near Jaffiergunge after receiving 
the largest Branch of the Denospour River 3 & a small Creek from that of Sheebgunge. 1 
We finished the Survey of this River the 23d. 
The whole Course of the Dolaserry from its seperation from the Ganges to its 
Conflux with the Megna, the principal Windings included, is 75 miles. Of this we 
have now surveyed 63 miles, y e other 12 being surveyed before & about 41 of the 
Issamutey, besides the Toolsey Creek. 
The 23rd. in the Afternoon entered the Rottingunge River or Art.i H in order to * 
1 Caugmary of Rennell’s Map No. IX, a district north of Atia. The name is not marked on modern maps. 
2 Rennell’s Map shows a continuous line of Jhils extending north-westwards from the place where the Brahmaputra 
now joins the Ganges at Goaluudo, along what was theu the course of the eastern branch of the Atrai, or lower Teesta. 
The main stream of the Brahmaputra has broken across this low ground, and the face of the country is entirely changed. 
s Rajshahi, now a Division under the Lt.-Govr. of E. Bengal and Assam. The portion now entered is called 
Bettooriah in the Bengal Atlas (Map No. IX), ' Raudesliy’ is shown further west, the greater part of it lying south of 
the Ganges, about Murshidabad. 
4 The Atrai, Karatoya, and Tista. 
6 Probably destroyed since the incursion of the Brahmaputra. The face of the country hereabouts is entirely altered 
since that event. The ‘ Cantabotey ’ river is shown on the Atlas of India, sheet 120, as quite a small creek, the Kunta- 
buttee, not connected with the Ganges. The Dhaleswari now leaves the Brahmaputra or Jamuna 10 miles to the north 
of Jaffiergunge (Jafarganj). Fergusson gives a succinct account of the changes that took place in this region between 
Rennell’s survey and his time in his paper on the Delta of the Gauges (Quart. Journ Geol. Soc., Vol. XIX, p 336). 
6 The Dinajpur R. or Atrai. 
^ The Karatoya, 
s ? misspelling for Attri = Atrai R. This creek, which leaves the Ganges at Pubua, now goes by the name of the 
Ichhamati in some places and of the Attrai in others. 
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