BARISAL  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, headquarters of See also:

• BACKERGUNJE, or BAKARGANJ

Backergunje See also:

• DISTRICT

district in Eastern See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal and See also:

• ASSAM

Assam, situated on a See also:

• RIVER

river of the same name . Pop . (1901) 18,978 . It is an important centre of river See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, on the steamer route through the See also:

• SUNDARBANS, or SUNDEBBUNDS

Sundarbans from See also:

• CALCUTTA

Calcutta to the See also:

• BRAHMAPUTRA

Brahmaputra . It contains a first grade See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college and several See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools . There are a public librany, established by subscription in 1858; and a students' See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union, for helping the sick and poor and promoting the intellectual and See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical improvement of boys . Barisal has given its name to a curious physical phenomenon, known as the " Barisal guns," the cause of which has not been satisfactorily explained . These are noises, like the See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report of See also:

• CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon, frequently heard in the channels of the See also:

• DELTA (from the shape of the Gr. letter A, delta, originally used of the mouth of the Nile)

delta of the Brahmaputra, at the rising of the See also:

• TIDE (O. Eng. lid, cf. Ger. Zeit, time or season, connected with root of Sanskrit a-diti, endless)

tide .