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Updated: August 24, 2024
From Sikkim to the Khasia mountains our course was by boat down the Mahanuddy to the upper Gangetic delta, whose many branches we followed eastwards to the Megna; whence we ascended the Soormah to the Silhet district.
Thomson for the Khasia mountains Mahanuddy river Vegetation of banks Maldah Alligators Rampore-Bauleah Climate of Ganges Pubna Jummul river Altered course of Burrampooter and Megna Dacca Conch shells Saws Cotton muslins Fruit Vegetation Elevation Rose of Bengal Burrampooter Delta of Soormah river Jheels Soil Vegetation Navigation Mosquitos Atmospheric pressure Effects of geological changes Imbedding of plants Teelas or islets Chattuc Salubrious climate Rains Canoes Pundua Mr.
They assured us that the average rise at the mouth of the river, in the rains, was not more than five feet: the mean breadth of the stream is from seventy to ninety yards. From the point where it leaves the mountains, to its junction with the Megna, is at this season thirteen days' voyage, the return occupying from twenty to twenty-five days, with the boats unladen.
This was no doubt the result of unequal atmospheric pressure at the two localities, caused by the disturbance of the column of atmosphere by the Khasia mountains; for in December of the same year, thirty-eight observations on the surface of the Soormah made its bed forty-six feet above the Bay of Bengal, whilst, from twenty-three observations on the Megna, the pressure only differed + 0.020 of an inch from that of the barometer at Calcutta, which is eighteen feet above the sea-level.
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