VII. 



ON THE 



GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATIO 



OF 



A SAM. 



By captain JOHN BRYAN NEUFVILLE, 



Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General. 



IN taking a survey of the information lately acquired with regard to the 

 Geography* and Population of Asamy it may be necessary to premise, that prior 

 to the occupation of Rangpur, the capital of Asatn, during the late war, 

 all accurate knowledge of these subjects terminated at that point, and that 

 the course of the Brahmaputra had been almost invariably laid down by 

 Hydrographers from a northerly direction and origin, where it was supposed to 

 derive its source from the range of mountains which gives birth to the Ganges. 



* Subsequently to the date of this Memoir, much additional information has been collected 

 with respect to the Geography of Asam. Several points, however, of much interest remain to be 

 determined, on which account, any notice of them is, for the present, suspended. When the investi- 

 gation is compleat, some of those members of tlie Society who are conversant with Geographical 

 enquiry, will, it is be to hoped, communicate tlie result. — Note by the Secretary. 



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