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Creek falls into the Nobogonga. The River is from 140 to 180 yards broad & very 
deep : The Tide rises near 3 Cubits at Pultya. This River is the same that I traced 
part of in my way down the Southern Creeks, & at the place where I left off surveying 
it is known by y e name of the Burrasaat River. 1 This is the first navigable Branch of * 
the Ganges that we meet with to the Eastward of the Jelenghee River. 
The Pultya Creek is said to come from a large J eel which lies about 6 miles WNW 
from Pultya. The Jeel is named Berille. 
After crossing the Nobogonga our Road lay thro’ a prodigious thick Wood or Jungle 
for y e space of a mile & three quarters, the Nobogunga running close on the left of it. 
There are many Tygers in this Jungle. 
At the end of the Jungle lies v e Village & Stage of Nohatta, from whence the River 
turns off to the Northward. The Road from hence lies thro’ an open cultivated 
Countrey. At Night we halted at y e side of a Jeel near the Grove of Luckypour ; 
about \ a mile farther on was a small Tank in the Grove. 
The 23rd. surveyed near 10 miles, being obliged to go farther than usual on 
Account of the scarcity of Water. Passed thro’ the Village of Mohamedpour which 
is by far the most regular & neatest that we have seen since we left Calcutta. 2, Im- 
mediately to the Southw d of this Village there is a very fine large Tank. It is up-* 
wards of 700 yards long, & about two thirds of that in breadth. The Countrey round 
Mohamedpour lies excessive low. At this Season it is swampy in many places. Moha- 
medpour is upwards of 7-J miles from Nohatta. 
After leaving Mohamedpour Grove we came on a large Plain which lies so low 
that it is a Take or Jeel during great part of the Year. It is named Beelseral or Seral- 
Jeel. There are a number of Pools & Swamps at this Time, & about a mile & half 
from Mohamedpour is a Creek called Manickdaw : it is very shallow. 3 
At the end of this low Plain which is near 5J miles from MIFpour we came to the 
Burashee River. This River though excessive deep is not more than 50 yards broad at 
the Ferry. It is a Branch of the Comer & is navigable all y e Year for very large Boats. 
Its outlet from y e Ganges is opposite Charbagat Island, & it falls into Sunderbound * 
a little above the Herengotta River.* The Ferry is between Mosudgotta & Doagotta. 
is drying up year by year. O11 Rennell’s map it is shown as a continuation of the Gorroy or Garai R. which leaves the 
Ganges at Kushtia. 
1 Ante. p. 21. 
2 Mohamedpour remained a large town till 1836, when it was devastated by a fever introduced by prisoners employed 
on the Dacca- Jessor road, and it has since become an insignificant village. It was founded at the end of the 17th 
century by Sitaram Rai, a landholder of Bhushna, and under him became the capital of the district. There are the 
remains of a quadrangular fort surrounded by a ditch, the southern portion of which forms the tank mentioned by 
Rennell. An account of the antiquities of the place is given by Hunter in his Stat. Acc. of Bengal, vol. II, p. 212, and 
in the List of Ancient Mon. Bengal, p. 126. For an account of the career of Sitaram Rai, see Bengal, Past and Present, 
Vol. V, p. 236. 
3 Rennell does not mention the Madhumati, on the R. bank of which Mohamedpur now stands. At this time the 
name was given only to that portion of the river which lies below the mouth of the Nabaganga. It is the southern con- 
tinuation of the Garai, which leaves the Gauges at Kushtia, and it enters the sea by the Haringhata estuary. When the 
Gauges broke south into the Garai channel, early in the nineteenth century, the Nabaganga and Barasia (Rennell's 
Burashee ), its natural outlets to the sea, were unable to carry the surplus water, and a new channel was opened 
through a small creek, the Alaugkhali (Ellenkhali of Fergusson, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. , XIX, p. 335). Afterwards the 
name Madhumati was extended to the new channel (Hunter, op. cit., p. 174). 
* The Haringhata estuary, or “Deer ford.” 
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