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The 26th. surveyed 5J miles & came to Hadgi Gunge. 1 The first two miles lay 
along the side of the River mentioned yesterday ; from thence the Road turns to the * 
E. S. E. & goes very strait to Hadgi Gunge. The latter part of the Road lay along the 
S. W. side of a long Jeel, a small Branch of which we crossed about a mile & quarter 
from Hadgigunge. 
The whole distance by the Roads from Dumdum to Hadgigunge is 133 miles 3 
furlongs ; & if Dumdum be as is reported 6 miles from Calcutta the whole distance will 
be 139! nearly. 
I staid at Hadgigunge till the 2d. March waiting for Mr. Richards. During this 
time I was employed in constructing & copying a large Map of Bengali for the Gover- 
nor. The 2d. of March finding that Mr. Richards had but just left Culna, I set off 
for Dacca to get a supply of Men & Boats for the next Survey. 
The Passage by Water from Hadgigunge to Dacca is about 69 miles at this Season. P i an 0 f yC 
The Route is thro’ Meggala Creek & into the Issamuty at Kardupour ; then by Ganfees ' 
way of Nabobgunge & Churan ; thro’ Toolsey Creek & into the Dollaserry ; by 
Tagerpour & Fattylur, & up the Beurygonga to Dacca. The 4th. arrived at Dacca * 
& continued there till y e nth. The two last days I was detained by reason of my 
Dandies 2 running away. 
During this time I finished & sent away the Governor’s Map, & procured a new 
sett of Boats & Coolies. Mr. Richards arrived the 7th. 
The Northwest Squalls began the first of the month, & we have had several days 
of Northwardly Wind since that Time. 
The nth. in the Morning left Dacca in order to drop down to the Mouth of the 
Ganges & proceed to Jelenghee by way of the Southern Creeks. My Intention was 
to send Mr. Richards by way of the Burashee & to go myself by way of the Nobogonga 
or Burrasaat River, & to meet Mr. Richards at the head of the Comer Creek. 
On my leaving Dacca I began to reduce another Map of the Ganges for the present 
Governor, Mr. VanSittart & some other Gentlemen having carried off all the Plans 
that I had made of the Ganges in 1764. 3 The Map I now began was intended to be on * 
a Scale of 3 British miles to an Inch, & to contain all the several Branches of the Ganges 
from J elenghee to the Sea : also the River Megna from its Conflux with the Ganges to 
Dacca, together with the Environs of that City. The whole was to be on 3 Sheets of 
Imperial Paper. Mr. Richards was employed in correcting & reducing his Route 
from Bongong to Mohamedpour. The nth. at Night we came near Rajabarryd 
The 12th. the bad Weather obliged to stay at Rajabarry great part of the Day. 
The 14th. in y u Morning arrived at the head of Badarashon Creek which leads 
out of the great River oppsite Rajanagore, & runs by Hobbygunge into the Goanuddy 
1 See note p. 22. 
2 Boatmen. 
s These are perhaps the maps referred to by Sir C. Markham in a note on p. 55 of his ‘Memoir of the Indian 
Surveys’: — “The originals are now in the Geographical Department of the India Office. They were taken home by 
some official and treated by him as private property, till they were accidentally discovered in the collection of a lady 
of rank, and purchased for £100 by their lawful owners, the Court of Directors (Bombay Quarterly Review, 
Vol. Ill, p. 140).” 
* At the junction of the Dhaleswari with the Meghna. 
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