JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. VI.— 1853. 



Account of a visit to the Jugloo and Seesee rivers in Tipper Assam, 

 hy Capt. E. T. Dalton, together with a note on the Gold Melds of 

 that Province, hy Major H ann at. 



I received instructions, in November last, to examine and report 

 on the Grold-producing capabilities of an auriferous stream, an 

 affluent of the Booree Dihing, called the Jugloo. This stream takes 

 its rise in the Tipam range of hills in this District (Luckimpore) 

 in about 27° 20' North Latitude and 95° 30' East Longitude, flows 

 through an uninhabited tract of high undulating forest-land between 

 the hills and Dihing river, into which the Jugloo discharges itself 

 fourteen miles above Jaipore after a course of about ten miles. 



This Jugloo, or the tract through which it flows, was, in olden 

 times from the richness of the metal found there, considered a royal 

 preserve as a gold-field. There is a tradition that in some part of 

 it, gold was found in lumps attached to an edible root accidentally 

 pulled up by a fortunate traveller ; but the exact site of this dis- 

 covery is not now known. 



In modern times, it has been quite deserted by the professional 

 gold-washers, because they say that it costs more to propitiate the 

 spirits who guard over the mineral treasures of the stream, than 

 they can afford to pay. Fortunately these spirits are said never to 

 molest Europeans, so*without considering the propitiatory offering 

 necessary as a preliminary, I proceeded to the field accompanied 

 by an expert gold-washer who, as a slave in a Singphoo family, had 



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