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SUNDARBANS, or SUNDEBBUNDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUNDARBANS, or SUNDEBBUNDS , a See also:tract of See also:waste See also:country in See also:Bengal, See also:India, forming the seaward fringe of the Gangetic See also:delta. It has never been surveyed, nor has the See also:census been extended to it. It stretches for about 165 m., from the mouth of the See also:Hugli to the mouth of the See also:Meghna, and is bordered inland by the three settled districts of the Twenty-four Parganas, See also:Khulna and See also:Backergunje. The See also:total See also:area (including See also:water) is estimated at 6526 sq. m. It is a water-logged See also:jungle, in which tigers and other See also:wild beasts abound. Attempts at reclamation have not been very successful. The See also:forest See also:department realizes a large See also:revenue, chiefly by tolls on produce removed. The characteristic See also:tree is the sundri (Heritiera littoralis), from which the name of the tract has probably been derived. It yields a hard See also:wood, used for See also:building, and for making boats, See also:furniture, &c. The Sundarbans are everywhere intersected by See also:river channels and creeks, some of which afford water communication between See also:Calcutta and the See also:Brahmaputra valley, both for steamers and for native boats.

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