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1873.] H. Blochmann —Geography and History of Bengal. 
rivers, ‘ peryculeous’ for ships, being the place where the “ Jagt ter Shelling”* 
foundered in 1661. 
In order to trace the direction of the northern outskirt of the Sundar- 
ban, as it existed sometime before 1582 A. I)., we have again recourse to 
Todar Mall’s rent-roll in the Ain. There we find that Mahall Hatia- 
garh (below Diamond Harbour) was, in 1582, the most southerly assessed 
mahall of Sirkar Satgaon. The jungle boundary then passed north-east to 
Baridhatti and Medinhnall, north-west of Port Canning, to Balinda and 
Maliihatti (Myehattee), then south again to Dhuliapur,f and Bhaluka to 
the Kabadak Iliver. These mahalls belong to what is now called the 
24-Parganahs ; and Sheet 121 of the Indian Atlas of the Survey Depart¬ 
ment will shew that they lie even now-a-days very little north of the 
present northern limit of the Sunderban in the 24-Parganahs. Going up 
the Kabadak, in Jessore, we come to Amadi,J to the north of which, in the 
immediate neighbourhood, we have Masidkoor, a corruption of Masjidkur, one 
of the clearances of Khan Jahan (died A. D. 1459),§ the warrior saint of 
Khalifatabad or Southern Jessore, to whom the traditions of the present day 
point as an indefatigable establisher of Sundarban-abadis (clearances.) The 
A'in then gives Mahall Tala, with Tala on the left bank of the Kabadak 
as chief town and Kopilmunij] near it, and then mahalls Sahas, Khalippur, 
Cliarulia, liangdiya (wrongly called in the Indian Atlas Sang did) and 
Salimabad,^[ north of the modern Morrellganj at the beginning of the 
Haring’hata. North-west of Morrellganj, on the Bhairab (the ‘ dreadful’), 
we have the small station of Bagherhat, which gives name to a Sub-Division, 
and in its immediate neighbourhood we come to another clearance by the 
patron-saint of Jessore, where his mosque and tomb stand. It is the 
country round about Bagherli&t which up to the end of last century bore 
the name given it in the Ain, ‘ Haweli Khalifatabad,’ the ‘ Vicegerent’s 
clearance.’ Here, amidst the creeks and the jungles, which no horseman 
can approach, Nu^rat Shah, as will be seen below, erected a mint, appa¬ 
rently in opposition to his father ’Alauddin Husain Shah.** 
* Vide Mr. Foster’s article, Journal, As. Socy. Bengal, 1872, Part I, p. 36. 
f North of Ishwaripur (Issuripore), the residence of Pratapaditya. 
X Marked wrongly on the Survey map Armadi. Pennell has correctly Amadi. 
§ Westland, Jessore Report, p. 20} Gaur Das Baisakh, Journal, As. Soc. Bengal, 
1867, pp. 130, 131; also, Journal, 1872, Part I, p. 108. 
|| Rash Bihari Bose, J. A. S. Bengal, 1870, Part I, p. 235} Westland, Jessore 
Report, Chapt. YI, and p. 286. 
Here also the Ain has the form Sulaimanabad. 
## It is curious that a little higher up on the Bhairab, east of Khulna, where the 
Atharabanka (the ‘ eighteen windings’) joins the Bhairab, there is an ’Alaipur, i. e. 
’Alauddin’s town. Were it not for the distinct statement of the Riydzussalatm that 
’Alauddin, after arriving as an adventurer in Bengal, settled at a Chandpur (a very 
