314 MEMOIR OF A SURVEY OF 



IV. 



MEMOIR 



OF A 



SURVEY of ASAM and the NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES, 



EXECUTED IN 1825-6-7-8. 



By LIEUTENANT R. WILCOX. 



In the following Memoir I propose to give a detailed account of the 

 progress of our Geographical Discoveries on the N. E. Frontier from the 

 time when our armies advancing in that direction opened to us countries of 

 which we had till then a very imperfect knowledge. 



Narratives of some of the journies have been already published, and 

 much of the new information has been included in a paper in the 16th 

 Vol. of the Asiatic Researches : but the former are scattered in the News- 

 papers or Periodicals without connection to enable the enquirer to collect 

 the scattered gleams of information into one common focus, while the 

 latter, including only the results obtained by one of the individuals engag- 

 ed in that quarter, and applying also to statistic enquiries ; gives neces- 

 sarily an inadequate idea of our acquisitions in Geographical information 

 properly so called, as it also stops short of the date at which our enquiries 

 terminated. This appears to have been felt by the Society, who have 



