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On the right bank is the island, called Alojauli, formed by the separa- 

 tion of the Lohit into two branches, about twenty miles above Rajigpur^ 

 and re-uniting at Solal Paty near Maura Mukh : it was formerly populous 

 and thickly studded with villages, of which there are now scarcely any vestiges. 

 At the head of the Mqjauli, on the right bank is the district of Sisi, be- 

 longing to Asam proper, which has suffered much from plunder and rapine 

 during the late convulsions. 



Ascending the Lohif, after a certain space, the mouth of the Bori Diking 

 appears on the left bank, which runs by Jaj/pur and Digli Ghat on the 

 route pursued by the Burmese, and furnishes water-carriage thus far for the 

 canoes of the country. The Bori Diking flows from the hills consider- 

 ably to the eastward and south of the BrahmaJcund, throwing off the Nuwa 

 Diking in its course, which latter stream takes a north-west direction, and 

 intersecting the Sink-pko territory, empties itself into the Lokit, near 

 Sadiya : numerous tributary streams from the southern line of hills of the 

 Nagpur tribes, flow into the Bori Dimng m its course, which cross the 

 road followed by the Burmese, and materially add to the diffiulty of transit 

 during the rainy season. 



Continuing on the left bank, which is every where covered by deep grass 

 and forest jungle, the mouth of the Diburu Nala presents itself, mark- 

 ing the western boundary of the district inhabited by the tribe called 

 Mora?is, Mutteks, or Mowamarias, tributary to Asam. The limits of this 

 tract are bounded on the south by the Bori Diking River, on the west by a 

 line drawn between that stream and the mouth of the Diburu, on the north 

 by the Brakmaputra, and on the east by a line drawn from the Bori Diking 

 to a point opposite to the Kundil Nala, near Sadiija. The portions at present 

 inhabited are entirely on the banks of the Dibtirii, which takes its rise near 

 the north-east angle, and intersects diagonally the entire tract. 



