470 Notes on Ancient Temples and other remains [June, 



is notorious for the number of the Sewah Palm (Caryota Ureus). Toon 

 of a large description, and other timber trees, common to upper Assam, 

 are also in abundance. 



During a sojourn of a week on the banks of the Dikrung river, daily 

 excursions were made into the jungle, in the hopes of finding the remains 

 of another temple and tank, said to exist in, or near the site of an an- 

 cient place called Pritthimee, and by some Phoontook Nnggur ; situated 

 between the Dibong and Dikrung rivers there, about five miles apart. 



The result of our searches (although not fortunate enough to find 

 the temple and tank we looked for) were three very fine pucka tanks, 

 all of which were, in form, a parellelogram, three times the breadth in 

 length, with two opposite bathing ghauts, exactly in the middle of the 

 embankments, which last were built of first rate bricks, laid in three 

 steps or ledges to the water's edge and without lime or soorkee, the 

 upper surface of the embankment being also paved with bricks. 



One of these tanks, situated several miles inland, was by rough mea- 

 surement, 280 yards long, by 96 broad, and the site lengthways, north 

 and south, as near as possible. The bathing ghauts, although ruinous, 

 were built of hewn blocks of sandstone, flags of the same stone shield 

 shaped, as at No. 8 of typical marks (PI. XXX,) forming the side-ways. 

 Here also, on detached blocks from these ghauts, I found inscribed the 

 Fursah or Battle-axe, and other marks similar to those of the Copper 

 Temple. 



On the embankments near the ghauts, were several very large Bani- 

 an trees ; and besides numbers of fine Nahor, we found the Neribi, 

 (Canarium strictum), Tapor (Xanthochymus pictorius), and other fruit 

 trees ; — the surrounding small jungle where the ground was high and 

 dry, was invariably the wild Betelnut, with an occasional Sewah. 



Another of these tanks is situated close on the right bank of the 

 Dikrung, and from its immediate vicinity a high rampart of earth with 

 a ditch, proceeds south-west and west, circling round for several miles 

 north-west to north, at which point we found the remains of a brick 

 gateway, with rampart, and the tank I measured, close to it ; a road 

 also proceeds from this point to the westward (afterwards traced as 

 far as the Dibong). In front of the gateway, is a small water-course, 

 or continuation of the outer ditch, on each side of which were the re- 

 mains of buttresses of hewn sandstone, and some large slabs were lying 



