by the wood-cutters and falt-makers whofe "dreadful trade" is exercised at the conftant peril of their lives for the tygers not only appear on the margin in queft of prey, but often, in the night time, fwim to the boats that lie at anchor in the middle of the river.

These paffages are used during the whole year, by those who go to and from the lower parts of the Ganges and Calcutta, &c and during the feafon when the western branch of the Ganges is almoft dried up, the whole trade of Bengal (the western provinces excepted) paffes either by Channel-creek, or Baliagot, but chiefly by the former; fome articles of the Company's cargoes being brought more than 900 miles by water, at this season.

EXPLANATION of

of PLATE, N°. I.

A. A. A. Steep Banks, corroded by the current; the fragments of

which are depofited, and form the Banks B. B. B.

C. A fand Bank, accumulating to an Island. This once joined to D; till infulated by a breach of the river.

E. An Ifland, formed and inhabited. This alfo was a fand-bank, thrown up round the point F.

G. An Inland accumulating in the midt of the Channel.
H. The line of the ftrongest current.

I. A Gulf occafioned by the force of the current, from the oppofite fide, ftriking against the Bank: the origin of a future branch iffuing from the great river. In a courfe of time, the first reach of it becomes retrogade to the courfe of the river (fee note, page 263) as at K and L.

N. B. The section of the Branch of the Ganges is exactly fimilar to that of the Ganges itself, except in the article of width.

Published accord to Act of Parl! by LRennell June 30, 1783.

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