Ganges

(găn'jěz,) a famous river of India, considered asa cred stream by the Hindoos, which rises in the high region of the Himalaya, and, leaving the mountains at Hurdwar, flows 1,557 miles, with a smooth navigable stream, through delightful plains, to the Bay of Bengal. It receives numerous important affluents, chief of which are the Goomtee, Jumna, and Ramgunga, and has on its banks the great cities of Rajmahal, Patna, Benares, Allah a bad, Fur ruck a bad, Cawnpoor, Je ore, Char dern a gore, Dacca, Moor shed a bad, Calcutta, . Its mouth forms a delta, extending 200 m. N. of the Bay of Bengal-which region, called the Sunder bunds, is a malarious, jungly tract, infested by tigers, . Of the two chief arms of this delta, that of the Hooghly conducts up to Calcutta. [s. 394]