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Backergunje, it becomes one immense swamp, never entirely dry. During the height of the inundations the whole district may be said to be under water. The villages are built on artificially raised sites, or the high See also:

banks of the deltaic streams. Along many of the larger See also:

rivers the See also:

LINE

line of hamlets is unbroken for See also:

MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles together, so that it is difficult to say where one ends and another begins. The huts, however, except in markets and bazaars, are seldom See also:

close together, but are scattered amidst small See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden plots, and groves of See also:

MANGO

mango, date and betel-See also:

nut trees.

The plains between the villages are almost invariably more or less depressed towards the centre, where usually a See also:

marsh, or See also:

lake, or deep See also:

LAGOON (Fr. lagune, Lat. lacuna, a pool)

lagoon is found. These marshes, however, are gradually filling up by the silt deposited from the rivers; in the See also:

north of the district there now only remain two or three large swamps, and in them the See also:

PROCESS

process may be seen going on. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate of Faridpur is See also:

DAMP

damp, like that of the other districts of eastern Bengal; the See also:

AVERAGE

average See also:

ANNUAL

annual rainfall is 66 in. and the average mean temperature 76.9° F. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal rivers of Faridpur are the Ganges, the Arial See also:

KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

Khan and the Haringhata. The Ganges, or Padma as it is locally called, touches the extreme north-See also:

west corner of the district, flows along its northern boundary as far as Goalanda, where it receives the See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters of, the Jamuna or See also:

main stream of the See also:

BRAHMAPUTRA

Brahmaputra, and whence the See also:

UNITED

united stream turns southwards and forms the eastern boundary of the district. The See also:

RIVER

river is navigable by large See also:

CARGO (Span. for " loading," from Lat. carries, car)

cargo boats throughout the See also:

YEAR

year, and has an average breadth during the rainy season of 160o yds. See also:

Rice is the See also:

GREAT

great See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop of the district. In 1901 the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population was1,937,646, showing an increase of 6% in the See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade. The north of the district is crossed by the line of the Eastern Bengal railway to Goalanda, the See also:

PORT

port of the Brahmaputra steamers, and a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch runs to Faridpur town. But most of the See also:

trade is See also:

con-ducted by river.

End of Article: FARIDPUR, or FURREEDPORE

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