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were the mins of many brick houses, one of which may have been the Portuguese 
Church. It appears that the name of the place was changed to Luricule about 
150 years ago, which would agree very well with its derivation from the title of 
the Marquis of l,ourigal, as suggested in the note on p. 39. 
Traces of the Portuguese are still to be met with in the neighbourhood. They 
were great traders in the days of Akbar, as Fitch relates, and were employed by Raja 
Raj Ballabh in managing his estates. Two distinctly Portuguese names still exist 
near Ruricule, viz., Howla Gonzales, an old land tenure in the neighbouring ‘mauza’ 
of Kamarpur, and a tank at Naria (a mile west of Mulfatganj), called Dorta 
Dighi (or Da Orta’s Tank), after a ‘ Firinghi ’ still remembered in the locality 
for his kindness and liberality. 
Finally, it may be noted that the c Chiddypour Creek’, which passes by 
Furicule, is the real Callygonga River ; the river marked as the Callygonga in 
Rennell’s Atlas is the Naya Nadi Rathkhola, i.e., the f New Chariot Path River,’ 
so called because in the early part of the eighteenth century this was the path, so it 
is averred, along which the chariot was drawn at the Sripur Rath-jatra festival. 
The deepening of the path led to the formation of the creek, and it has finally 
become the bed of the mighty river Kirtinasa. 
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