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of lime, coal, arid chalk about the vales, might prove of the utmost use 

 to any manufacture or plantation which might be established, as the 

 country becomes known and settled. Regarding the climate, I cannot 

 say much from experience ; but the diseases both amongst cattle and 

 men, which have proved so fatal to those attacked by them in the nor- 

 thern parts of the Nowgong division, have not been known here, and 

 this may allow one to conclude, that this part of the country is more 

 salubrious than other parts. 



No grain having arrived till the 13th, I was unable to move forward; 

 when thirteen maunds having accumulated, I proceeded with half of the 

 Shan Detachment (leaving the remainder to follow when more grain 

 came up, as I expected its arrival every moment) to Dhemapore Nugger 

 to which place I had requested Tularam Rajah to cut a road, having heard 

 of the existence of the ruins of an old Cacharee fort on the Dhunsiri 

 on my return last year, which nobody (with exception perhaps of one or 

 two very old Cacharees belonging to Tularam) had seen. Crossing the 

 Jumonah a mile or two distant from Mohong, we reached the Dhealow 

 river, on which sheds had been erected for us, and were obliged to 

 encamp, as I was told the second sheds were too far for us to reach 

 that day, having started late, from the non-arrival of the coolies. The 

 Dhealow is about ten or fifteen yards broad, and like most hill streams, 

 shallow. The path was excellent, over a slightly undulating country; we 

 passed a few clearances which had been deserted several years back, on 

 account of the Naga feuds ; the distance to this is about six miles; the ap- 

 pearance of the country wavy, with small rich alluvial plains at intervals. 

 \^th. — Passed through the same description of country as yesterday, 

 and was obliged to encamp at the second sheds, eight miles distant, on 

 the Pikrong Deesa, the distance including our present march from 

 this to Dhemapore, being too great for the coolies. 



1 5^/i. — Passing over a small plain and some wavy ground, we found 

 the path excellent till we reached the Looree, a small river, in the 

 bed of which our route lay for three or four miles to within a league of 

 Dhemapore ; when we left it, and got upon some high country, which 

 led us to the fine bund road skirting the walls of the ancient city. 

 I was very much astonished to find so fine an old place, totally lost 

 sight of by the Cacharees themselves, an oral tradition of which was 

 merely in existence ; but they attribute it to the fear they have always felt 



