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most part shallow, but occasionally we came on deep pools of very 

 clear water. The quantity of fish* in these pools is astonishing. 

 The Singfoos speared a great number during the daytime. Camped 

 at night on the banks of the Namroop. 



25th. — Continued our march up the Namroop, much in the 

 same manner as on the previous day. Striking occasionally into 

 the jungle to avoid going out of our course which was still south, 

 until we reached the mouth of a small stream, called Nambong, 

 when we left the Namroop and waded up the Nambong to 

 the mouth of a still smaller stream. Up this latter stream, the 

 Nunkee, we travelled till evening and encamped on its banks. 

 The country during the early part of the day was undulating and 

 gradually became hilly. The principal rock was a soft blue slate. 

 Occasionally a thin seam of sandstone appeared. The strata were 

 faulty and in some places very much disturbed. 



26th. — Continued to wade up the Nunkee with slow uncertain steps, 

 for the bed of this stream is composed of large round slippery boulders. 

 After travelling about an hour up the stream, we left it and com- 

 menced the ascent of the Patkoi, by a narrow and not very well marked 

 path. The ascent was not steep, the ponies had no difficulty except 

 when we came to a fallen tree or some other obstruction caused by the 

 living jungle. The path was very nearly straight, there was hardly 

 any attempt to lessen its steepness by altering the direction. As we 

 ascended, the forest trees seemed to improve in size and the undergrowth 

 of jungle to be less thick. Of the timber trees common to Assam, I 

 particularly noticed the Samf and the Mekahi. These trees average 

 at least twelve feet in girth, and the latter grows to the height of 

 sixty to seventy feet without a branch. On the summit I found a 

 good deep soil covered with bamboos, canes, and forest trees growing 

 luxuriantly, but not so rankly as in the plains below. Many of the 

 plants and trees were common to the plains, others were new to me, 

 particularly a cane bearing an edible fruit, which I do not recollect 

 having seen before. I found the Tea plant abundant on both sides, 

 but more plentifully on the southern than on the northern slope. 



* If this route is opened out, the immense quantity of fish in all these rivers 

 may prove of economical importance. The most numerous are Cyprinus 

 (Labeo) dyocheilus, Barbus macrocephalus and Barbus hemgonolepis* 



t Artocarpus chaplasha. 



