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ed the best farmers in Assam, the cultivation is good, and crops of the 

 same description are raised as in the other parts of Assam ; with ex- 

 ception of the mustard plant, which is scarce. Sugar-cane, of a supe- 

 rior quality is cultivated to some extent, and manufactured into goor. 

 And in the upper section of the country, inhabited by Morans, cot- 

 ton of an excellent quality is produced, and forms a considerable export 

 to lower Assam, 



Rice and cotton are the staple commodities, and with goor, and ele- 

 phants' teeth, form the only exports. 



The country, however, like the other sections of Upper Assam fur- 

 nishes mooga ; and the southeast portion is the locality of numer- 

 ous tea tracts, many of which are in an advanced state, and produce 

 tea of an excellent quality. 



The universal resources of the Senaputtee's country must be supposed 

 to be of the same nature as those which are known to exist in that por- 

 tion of Upper Assam, with which it is connected. It may however be 

 observed, that on the eastern side of the country towards the Naga 

 hills, there are iron, salt, and coal found, within the limits of the boun- 

 dary lately alloted to the Muttuck chief ; neither of these minerals are 

 worked. 



The imports into the Senaputtee's country, which find a ready sale 

 are salt, tobacco, betel-nut, cossyah mattocks, flints and steel, knives of 

 Assamese manufacture, brass pots, copper pots, earthen pots. 



High ridges of ground run across the country from southwest, to 

 northeast, particularly towards the eastern boundary. But the gene- 

 ral level of the country is low, and the lower portion of the Debroo, 

 and the whole line of the Booree Diking, with a few exceptions*, is 

 flooded, during the height of the rains. It is intersected by numer- 

 ous streams, and water-courses, and those on the north bank of the 

 Debroo, which fall into that river, coming from the Burkumpooter ; a 

 portion of the country therefore, from Sudiya to the mouth of the 

 Debroo, may be considered only as a succession of islands, belonging 

 to the large river. 



The principal streams on the northern side, are the Sasa and Tingri, 

 both of which fall into the Booree Diking. They are navigable for the 

 common canoes of the country throughout the greatest part of the 

 year, and are consequently extremely useful to the inhabitants, as out- 

 lets for the produce of the country. 



The Muttuck-f country is not considered unhealthy by the natives, 



* la many places the remains of a water bund are visible on the Diking. 

 t A name given to the Morans by the Khamtis. 



