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a Map drawn in their own incorrect style, shewing the situation of the 

 notable villages or districts, and exhibiting the various nalas feeding the 

 Brahmaputra within their limits. It was afterwards remarked that in this 

 production, the Dihong and the Dihong were not distinguished from other 

 tributary streams. 



The commission with which Lieutenant Burlton was charged was 

 executed by him in a highly creditable manner. With a surveying com- 

 pass only, and unfurnished with any instrument for measuring distances, 

 he surveyed the river to Sadixja and a short distance beyond, and subse- 

 quent measurement has detected but little error in the Map he made. 



In the Government Gazette of 9th May, 1825, appeared an extract 

 from Lieutenant Burlton's letter, giving an account of this expedition, it 

 is dated " On the river Burrampooter, N. Lat. 27° 54' E. Long. 95° 24' 

 March 31st, 1825."* He reports that he had that day got as high up the 

 river, as it was navigable : its bed, he says, was a complete mass of rocks,t 

 with only a depth of three or four feet water in the deepest part, the rapidity 

 of the current was also so great, that no boat could track against it, put- 

 ting the danger of striking on the rocks out of the question. He consi- 

 ders it as about the size of the Kullong river, (one hundred and fifty yards 

 across) and the extreme banks as being not more than six hundred yards 

 apart. Lieutenant Burlton regrets that he could not proceed further either 

 by land or water. It was represented to be at least ten days' journey to the 

 Brakmakund, and he had but a few days provisions left — what he had 

 learnt respecting the course of the river above, was " that it runs easterly 



* The true place was about Lat. 27° 49' and Long. 95° 52'. 



f Not rocks in situ, but rounded stones and pebbles brought down from the mountains in 

 the rainy season. II. W. 



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