Historical Studies

Among the great rivers which water the province of Behar are the Ganges the Gogra the Gunduck the Kumla the Koosi the Mahananda the Soane atd the Karumnassa. [...] the Presidency division'are the Hooghly the Matabhanga tjoe Schalnatti and an immense number of Pmaller rivers with all the openings on the sea-coast of the delta among which are the Roy Mungul the ltutlah the Burra Naga the Passur the Horingottah and the Beeskhalli. [...] The great rivers of Assam are the Brahmapootra the Monass the Noanadi the Bornadi the Debang the Debroo the Desang and the Difloo. [...] In the Dacca division are the Brahmapootra the Pudma the Soorma (which afterwards becomes the Megna) the Booreegunga the Lukhyd the Dhullessari and theBansi. [...] Of the districts north of the Ganges and of the wholeof the.' central districts of Bengal Proper the drainage is from north to south—all the rivers rising from the northern mountains emptying themselves into the main stream of the Ganges while all the rivers which branch off from the Ganges are carried down biy direct routes of their own to the sea.