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through a jungly and swampy tract intersected by swollen rivers. For 

 the first fourteen miles, they encountered swamps, jheels, and tree jungle ; 

 then, after coming on a good broad road, and proceeding one mile along 

 it, they found a fine stone bridge, of three arches, in good repair, over the 

 Tezakhana nullah. The broad road continued (occasionally broken) 

 through a more open country with the Ndga hills on the right at no great 

 distance. The Chipera river was crossed by the help of a party of Ndgas, 

 who are very expert in felling timber, and a raft was constructed for pass- 

 ing the baggage over the Tsokak, which could not be forded by elephants. 



On the 20th of June, appeared some further information, derived 

 from Lieutenant Neufville, who, by means of some K/ianglis, (Khamtis) 

 originally from the Bor Khangti country, had been enabled to add to his 

 former account, that " The JBor Khangti country, before remarked, lies 

 in a direction from this spot a little to the south of east on the other side 

 of the high snowy hills of the Bralimakund. These ranges he now finds 

 extend back to a far greater depth than he had at first supposed, and he 

 is assured to a far higher altitude than any of those now visible.* The 

 Burrampooler or Lohit, accessible only as far as the reservoir of the JBrah- 

 makund, (unless perhaps to the hill Meeshmees) takes its original rise very 

 considerably to the eastward, issuing from the snow at one of the loftiest 

 of the ranges, thence it falls a mere mountain rivulet to the brim of the 

 Srahmakund, which receives also the tribute of three streams from the 

 Meesmee hills, called Jnkjimg, Tisseek and Digaroo.[. From the opposite 



* To the north east of Sudiya, there are higher mountains than those visible from the station — 

 but directly towards the sources of the Brahmaputra, it does not appear that there are any higher. 



f The only stream falling into the Kund or near it, is the Deopani, a mountain rill. The 



Digaru falls into the Brahmaputra miles west of the Kund, on the north bank the Mitee is 



the nearest, falling in from the south about half mile beyond. The Tisseek and Juhjung, I do 

 not recognise. 



