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From the road at 4000 ft we could see the plains spread out like a map with the Teesta River winding thru the plains & the great Terai forest which bounds the hills looking black & spreading out in fans with very few cultivated breaks.

(18)  Daylight dawned at Santahar where we changed to the broad guage at 4:50 A.M.  The trip thru the plains was amid fields of jute & rice in about equal proportions.  At 8 A.M. we crossed the Ganges over a new steel bridge a mile in length.  The river was muddy & swollen but within its banks, Fleets of the sharp ended Bengali canoes some with square sails set