...in regular strata, till we arrive at the clay, that forms the lower part of their beds. There is not any substance so coarse as gravel, either in the delta, or nearer the sea than 400 miles,* where a rocky point, a part of the base of the neighbouring hills, projects into the river : but in...

...soil appears below Dacca and Borleah, between the Tiperah hills on the east, and Burdwan on the west ; nor is there any substance so coarse as gravel, either in the Delta or nearer the sea than Oudanulla, which is 400 miles distant by the course of the river. At that place, a rocky point projects...