From the road + when we could see the plains spreading like a map wit the Teesta River winding than the plain + the green terrain forest which borders the hills rolling back, spreading on in fans with very few cultivated fields. (18) Daylight dawned at Santalaha where we changed to the broad queue at 4.50 AM. The trip thru the plains was amid fields of jute + rice in about equal proper rations. At 8 a.m. we crossed the Ganges over a steel bridge a mile in length. The river was muddy + swollen but within its banks fleet. With ship ended Bengali canos some with square sails bet