Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1895

During the rainy season of 1898 when severe floods were occurring up in the north of the District 3 [With reference to this paper readers are referred to the discussion recorded in the Proceedings of the Society for February 1895 in which the propriety of certain of the author's conclusions as regards the physical aspect of the case are gloriously impugned. [...] Mallet in his riemoir Ou the Geology of the Darjeling District " I remarks " the Mahanuddy and the Teesta flow into the plains in the debateable ground where under sub-deltaic conditions a constant struggle is going on between the Ganges and the Brahrnaputra as they approach each other from the Nest and from the East across the great plain to the south of the mountains early in the centur [...] The Railway Surveys of the Assam-Behar section of the E. B. S. R. and the Bengal North-Western Railway which are connected by a ferry across the Kusi about 5 miles below the Nepal frontier show that from Acra (tudgf Achra) Ghat on the east bank of the Kusi to Forbesgaiij Station a distance of 14 miles by the line in a SoutEasterly direction there is a fall in the surface of the ground of [...] At the present time the former is just recovering from the state of being more or less a treeless tiger jungle and the latter is the most cultivated and wooded of the taLree parganas of the Maharaja of Darbhauga's zamindiui of Dharampur the exploiting ground of the Kusi in Purneah for the past century.. [...] The tradition of this junction taking place is quite distinct in the minds of the natives inhabiting its banks who do not consequently look on the Poddab as a sacred stream." Now if we examine the Sea-board of the Gangetic Delta at the head of the Bay of Bengal we find three indentations or arms of the Three large Estuasea larger and running deeper into the seies in the Seaboard of ward