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great range, averaging from two to three thousand feet high. The 

 Sumoogoding range, after s^dmitting the Desem river through it to 

 the east of that village, continues in a north-eastern direction till it 

 is again broken by the Rengma river passing through it, and it finally 

 ends at the Doyang river ; the hills on the eastern bank of the latter 

 river extending down its course to about the parallel of latitude of 

 Mohong Dhejooa. The mountain on which Juppmah is situated, over- 

 looks the Sumoogoding ridge, and the whole country is visible up to 

 the Rengma Naga hills, to the west of the Dhunsiri ; the eye extending 

 over a vast dark looking forest plain, with the course of the Rengma 

 winding through it, till it is lost sight of in the distance. The hills to 

 the east, between the Rengma and Doyang river, are of a far less 

 height than those to the west of the former river, and run in parallel 

 ridges, east and west. The largest mountains lay in detached ridges 

 to the south of the great range. 



It appears to me that the latter range would form a well defined 

 boundary between Assam and Munipoor, running in an almost uninter- 

 rupted straight line from the Meghpoor valley up to the Rengma river, 

 a slight bend only taking place to the southward, of not much con- 

 sequence, about Berem. 



I regret extremely I was not able to prosecute my examination of 

 the country further to the eastward, which I was obliged to give up 

 on account of the delay that I had been subjected to in the plains, and 

 the lateness of the season at which I entered the hills. Sickness had 

 commenced in camp, which made marching very harassing with the 

 limited means I had of conveyance. 



21th. After much diflftculty in providing conveyance for the sick, I 

 left this ground, and returned by the path we had come. 



We encamped in our former fences of the 20th. 



On the 28^^, reached Meyepamah ; and on the 29thy arrived at Sumoo- 

 goding, and found that the whole of the stockade, grain, and property left 

 behind, had been destroyed by fire, through the carelessness of a sepoy, 



2nd March. Deeming it imprudent to trust a post at such a distance 

 from any civilized population with only a few maunds of grain in a 

 weak stockade, and fearing the ill will of the villagers, I brought the 

 whole party down to Dhemapoor, where we found 200 maunds of grain 

 assembled. 



