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H. Blochmann —Geography and History of Bengal. [No. 3, 
Blaev’s Map of Bengal and of the Mughul Empire. 
The map of Upper India by William and John Blaev (PI. IY) is taken 
from their “ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,” Amsterdam, 1645 to 1650, Yol. 
II,* and is based upon the Portuguese and Dutch charts that existed at 
the time, and upon the descriptions of European travellers. As far as 
Bengal is concerned, it is a reprint of De Barms’ map, and represents, 
therefore, the knowledge which European geographers had of Bengal about 
1540. In point of accuracy it is much inferior to Yan den Broucke’s map 
of 1660,f given in Yalentyn’s work. But the map is of great interest, as 
it helps us to unravel the difficulties in Terry’s enumeration of the provinces 
of Bengal and other portions of the Dihli empire, J which has also been 
followed by the Dutch traveller De Laet in his “ India Yera” (Amsterdam, 
1631), and of which traces may still be found on Yan den Broucke’s map. 
It is with a view to explain the extraordinary configuration of Bengal on 
the old maps that I have given the present chapter a place in this essay. 
From a glance at the map, it will be seen that our early geographers 
had no information of the extent and situation of the countries which we 
now-a-days call the Central Provinces and Chutia Nagpur. Hence Gwaliar, 
Narwar, and (on Yan den Broucke’s map) Malwa, bound Bengal on the west; 
the Santal mountains are continued eastwards to meet the A'sam mountain- 
chains, and places belonging to the Central Provinces have been put north 
of Bengal. 
Terry enumerates the following provinces as belonging to the Mughul 
empire—1. Candahore , Qandahar ; 2. Cabal; 3. Multan; 4. Haiacan , 
Hajikan, a sirkar of Sindh; 5. BucJcor, Bliakkar; 6. Tatta; 7. Soret 
with Jonagar , Sorat’h with Junagarh; 8. Jesselmeere; 9. Attoh ; 10. 
Beulah , Panjab ; 11. Chishmeere , Kashmir ; 12. Banchish , “ the chief city 
is called Bislmr ; it lyetli east, somewhat southerly from Chishmeere, from 
which it is divided by the Kiver Indus.” Here we have the first misplace¬ 
ment. Terry means Bangasli and Bajor (Sawad, Swat) ; but for Bast, he 
should have said West. 
* Capt. J. Waterhouse drew my attention to a copy of this work in the Library 
of the As. Society. 
f Mattheus Yan den Broucke was Land-Voogd, or governor, of Choromandel 
which included Bengal, from 1658 to 1664, during which time he compiled the map 
in the Vth Volume of the ‘ Beschryying yan Choromandel’ in Francis Valentyn’s 
‘ Oud en NiewOost Indien’, Amsterdam, 1728. (Library, As. Soc. Bengal, No. 2266.) 
J Edward Terry was chaplain to Sir Thomas Row, the Ambassador to Jahan¬ 
gir’s Court, and was later Rector of the Church at Greenfoi’d, Middlesex. He 
presented his £ Voyage to East India,’ in 1622, shortly after his return to England, 
to the then Prince of Wales; but he only published it in 1655, when he was sixty-four 
years old. 
