784 Extracts from a report of a journey [No. 154. 



The Diboo Panee is a noble stream, as wide, if not wider than the 



Dhunsiri, and much more rapid ; it falls into the 

 Diboo Panee River. 



latter river 10 miles below Dhemapoor. This 



river I believe, comes from the Konoma range of hills during the rainy 



season; a large quantity of wrecks of trees is swept from this river 



into the Dhunsiri. A few miles from its confluence with the Dhunsiri, 



the bed of this river is filled with huge roundish stones, for the most 



part its banks are composed of these large stones mixed with gravel 



and earth. 



The Jummoona river is already well known, therefore no further men- 



Jummoona River, tion may be required from me. 



By the present route, the total distance from Golaghat to Dhemapoor 



is about 60 miles : this might be considerably shortened, say 

 Roads. 



by 10 miles, and a good open path 10 feet wide through the 



heavy tree jungle, be cut for Co's Rs. 40 per mile, total expence would 

 be Co's Rs. 2,080. The path at present from Golaghat to the Namber is 

 very inferior, for the most part running through broken ground, distance 

 10 miles; from the Namber to Bor Pather, path tolerably good, 

 through open tree jungle and high country, intersected by many small 

 nullahs, which require bridges, distance eight miles. From Bor Pather 

 to Dao Panee tolerably good, many swamps and nullahs intersect 

 the path, distance nine miles. From Dao Panee river to Hurreeojan, 

 very inferior, the path is more like a wild animal's track than a road, 

 distance 12 miles. From Hurreeojan to the Diboo Panee river again 

 very inferior, swamps and nullahs are in abundance, distance 1 3 miles. 

 From the Diboo Panee to Dhemapoor no route, except in the bed of 

 the Dhunsiri, and this only passable during the three months of Decem- 

 ber, January, and February, when the water is shallow ; distance nine 

 miles, total distance by present route 6 1 miles. By the route I have 

 sketched in the map, this distance may be shortened by 10 miles. I 

 should prefer the road from Golaghat to Bor Pather running through 

 Nagorah and across to Bor Pather, to the Namber Nuddee route ; the 

 land is high and better adapted for a road, besides being the means 

 of opening a direct communication between Golaghat and the large 

 Mouzahs of Nagorah Geladharee, Mackreong, &c. which is at present 

 much required. The road from Dhemapoor to Summagoding made by 

 Capt. Bigge is rather circuitous, and leads for three miles along the 



