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some insects, soon become familiar to the few inhabitants
still in its neighbourhood.
The Ganges formerly ran close to it, and its departure is
easily accounted for, the soil to the westward being light and
sandy, through which the river runs, continually shifts, filling
up the place it has left with new land. The present distance
from Goar to the Ganges is nine or ten miles, but in one
direction it has within the last five years (preceding 1801)
approached three or four miles nearer, causing the natives,
whose lands are cut away, to resort to the wastes of Gour itself,
who have brought some parts of it into cultivation; but it is
unhealthy where they attempt to settle upon it. Rajemahl,
Malcla, and Murshidabdd, for centuries have been supplied
from hence with materials for building; and bricks and stones
are continually carried away to other parts of the country, on
carts, bullocks, and in boats, by the natives, for the purpose
of modern edifices.
The late Mr. Reuben Barrow, who visited these ruins in the
year 1787, gives the following description of them in his
journal, the manuscript of which is deposited in the Library
of the East-India Company :—
“ Gour is an enormous heap of ruins, but seems rather to
“ have been destroyed by the removal of the materials for
“ other
still in its neighbourhood.
The Ganges formerly ran close to it, and its departure is
easily accounted for, the soil to the westward being light and
sandy, through which the river runs, continually shifts, filling
up the place it has left with new land. The present distance
from Goar to the Ganges is nine or ten miles, but in one
direction it has within the last five years (preceding 1801)
approached three or four miles nearer, causing the natives,
whose lands are cut away, to resort to the wastes of Gour itself,
who have brought some parts of it into cultivation; but it is
unhealthy where they attempt to settle upon it. Rajemahl,
Malcla, and Murshidabdd, for centuries have been supplied
from hence with materials for building; and bricks and stones
are continually carried away to other parts of the country, on
carts, bullocks, and in boats, by the natives, for the purpose
of modern edifices.
The late Mr. Reuben Barrow, who visited these ruins in the
year 1787, gives the following description of them in his
journal, the manuscript of which is deposited in the Library
of the East-India Company :—
“ Gour is an enormous heap of ruins, but seems rather to
“ have been destroyed by the removal of the materials for
“ other