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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 402 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARISAL , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, headquarters of See also:Backergunje See also:district in Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam, situated on a See also:river of the same name. Pop. (1901) 18,978. It is an important centre of river See also:trade, on the steamer route through the See also:Sundarbans from See also:Calcutta to the See also:Brahmaputra. It contains a first grade See also:college and several See also:schools. There are a public librany, established by subscription in 1858; and a students' See also:union, for helping the sick and poor and promoting the intellectual and See also:physical improvement of boys. Barisal has given its name to a curious physical phenomenon, known as the " Barisal guns," the cause of which has not been satisfactorily explained. These are noises, like the See also:report of See also:cannon, frequently heard in the channels of the See also:delta of the Brahmaputra, at the rising of the See also:tide.

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