232 H. Blochmann— Geography and History of B eng ah [No. 3, 
The old Portuguese and Dutch maps, therefore, prove nothing. They 
support the conclusion which I drew from Todar Mall’s rent-roll, that in the 
24-Parganahs and Jessore the northern limit of the Sundarban, omitting 
recent clearances, was in the fifteenth century much the same as it is 
now. But considerable progress must have been made in Baqirganj 
District, as we see from the numerous accessions, during that period, 
to the Imperial rent-roll. 
Of other names given on old maps along the southern boundary of Bengal, 
we have (above Noldy) Nao Muluco (P), Bur am (Borliun, in the 24- 
Parganahs) ; Maluco (Bhaluka, on the Kabadak, ?) ; west of them, 
Agrapara and lore, (Agrapara and Dak’hineshor, north of Calcutta) ; 
and on the other side of the Hugli., A b e g a c a, which seems to be some 
Amgachha, unless it is slightly misplaced and refers to Ambika (Kalnah) ; 
Bernagar, which should be Barnagar, on the other side of the river 
below Xore ; Betor (?) as on Blaev’s map, and B e 1 o r, (?) on that of De 
Barros. Van den Brouke’s map gives, in Hugli District, Sjanabath (Jahan- 
abad); Sjandercona (Chandrakona) ; Cannacoel (Kanakul) ; Deniachali 
(Dhonek’liah) ; Caatgam (Satgaon) ; Tripeni (Tripani, the Muhammadan form 
ofTribeni) ; Pandua (Panduah) ; Sjanegger; Basanderi (the old mahall Ba- 
sandhari), where Van den Broucke makes the remark,’ t Bosh Sanderie alwaar 
Alexandre M. gestuyt werd , 4 the bush Sanderie where Alexander the Great 
was stopped!’ 
Again, along the lower Ganges the old maps have B i c a r a m (Bikram- 
pur, south of Dhaka) ; Belhaldy; Angara (Angaria, at the confluence 
of the Kirtinasa and the Megna) ; Sornagam (Sunnargaon) ; Dacca ; 
Mularangne;* Bunder (Bandar, 4 harbour’) ; Nazirpur, mentioned 
above ; Bulnei or Bulnee,? ; Guacala or Gucala, perhaps a mistake 
for Bacala ; Noorkuly or Noricoel, as Van den Broucke gives it, (Norikol, 
due south of Dhaka, and a little south of the right bank of the Kirtinasa) ; 
Sun diva (Sondip Island); Jugadia (Jogdiah in Noak’hali near the 
Little Pliani, mentioned in the ’ Alamgirndmah as an Imperial thanah, and 
often quoted as the seat of English and French factories in the eighteenth 
century); Traquetea, ? ; Maua, or Moua, and Alvia, for which 
Van den Broucke gives Mava and Alvia,? ; Jefieri, on Van den Broucke’s 
map, the same as Pennell’s Jeffri, at the mouth of the Phani, right bank. 
The coast of Arakan on the maps of De Barros and Blaev is broken up 
into numerous islands as the Sundarban coast : it looks as if some of them 
belonged to Bengal. Thus we find Bulua and Bacala, which must refer to 
Bhaluah in south Tiparah and Bakla. Chokuria may be identified with 
Chukuria, marked on modern maps opposite Maskal Island, on the Mamori 
* As this place is marked on an island south-west of Dhaka, it seems to be Mul- 
nadangi in the south of Char Mukundia. 
