Subject: Cooch Behar
Date: Oct 06, 2004 @ 23:24
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte <bwhyte@...>)
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At 01:23 PM 17/09/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:39:35 -0000
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
>Subject: Re: cooch behar
>
>what ragged borders you have there
>
>they look like beached former thalwegs


Yes, some of them were. Esp around the easternmost of the three Bangladeshi
prongs sticking north into India's chickenneck.
This is confirmed by 1800s and 1920s mapping I saw over there.


Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator
ERC Library
University of Melbourne
Vic 3010
AUSTRALIA
bwhyte@...