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A Statistical Account of Bengal. Districts of the 24 Parganas and Sundarbans

1875

STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SUNDARBANSSTATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SUNDARBANS I THE SUNDARBANS form the southernmost portion of the Gangetic Delta and extend along the sea face of the Bay of Bengal from the estuary of the Hugli on the west of the 24 Parganas to the great river Meghna on the east of Bakãrganj District under which name the united waters of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra find their w [...] They are bounded on the north by the permanently settled lands of the Districts of the 24 Parganas Jessor and Bakarganj ; on the east and west respectively by the estuaries of the Meghna and the Hugli ; and on the south by the Bay of Bengal. [...] The land near the banks of the two great rivers the Hugh and Meghna that is to say in the 24 Parganas and in the Bakarganj Districts lies comparatively high with the ground sloping downwards towards the middle portion comprising the whole of the Jessor and the eastern part of the 24 Parganas portion of the Sundarbans. [...] If we turn to the authorized chart of the mouths of the Hugh we find the following description of the action of the tides on that side of the delta :RIVER SYSTEM 13 The tides in the channels have a rotary movement with the sun ; first quarter flood W.N. [...] THE MEGHNA ESTUARY The next and last great channel on the sea face of the Sundarbans is the Meghna estuary formed by the united waters of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra and running along the eastern Sundarban boundary.

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Pages
178
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145342
Segment Pages Author Actions
Statistical Account of the Sundarbans
i-68 W.W. Hunter view
Preliminary Observations on Mr. Blochmann’s Historical and Geographical Notes
69-74 W.W. Hunter view
Geographical and Historical Notes on the Bardwan and Presidency Divisions of Lower Bengal Compiled for Dr. W. W. Hunter’s Statistical Account of Bengal
75-114 H. Blochmann view
Appendices
115-168 W.W. Hunter view
Index
169-i W.W. Hunter view

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