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perceptible on the neighbouring hills, a communication was at last effected 

 with the Mishmis of Dilli* a village of about a day's journey from the left 

 bank, as well as with the Gam, or chief of the village near the Brahma 

 Kund, in whose company a visit was paid to the reservoir on the 4th of 

 April. This celebrated reservoir is on the left bank of the river ; it is 

 formed by a projecting rock, which runs up the river nearly parallel to 

 the bank, and forms a good sized pool, that receives two or three small 

 rills from the hills immediately above it. When seen from the land side, 

 by which it is approached, the rock has much the appearance of an old 

 gothic ruin, and a chasm about half way up, which resembles a carved 

 window, assists the similitude. At the foot of the rock is a rude stone 

 seat : the ascent is narrow, and choked with jungle ; half way up is another 

 kind of seat, in a niche or fissure, where offerings are made ; still higher 

 up, from a tabular ledge of the rock, a fine view is obtained of the Kund, 

 the river, and the neighbouring hills ; access to the summit,! which resem- 

 bles gothic pinnacles and spires, is utterly impracticable ; the summit is 

 called the Deo Bari, or dwelling of the Deity. From the rock the descent 

 leads across a kind of glen, in the bottom of which is the large reservoir, 

 to the opposite main land, in the ascent of which is a small reservoir, 

 about three feet in diameter, which is fed by a rill of beautifully clear 

 water, and then pours its surplus into its more extensive neighbour below. 

 The large Kund is about seventy feet long by thirty wide. Besides 

 Brahma Kund and Deopdni, the place is also termed Prabhu Kuthdr, in 



* Dilling, or Dilong, is the only name resembling Dilli among the neighbouring villages, but 

 it is a hard day's journey from the Kund, and when I enquired there they did not know of the visit 

 of Captain B.'s people. They thought it might be Thethong. Captain Bedford places Dilli, 

 however, near my Dilling. 



\ Though inaccessible from below, a path above crosses the Deo Pani, which I have twice 

 passed ; it might be very difficult to clamber down ; but upwards, from where I crossed it, it 

 appeared easy to get up the mountain, even to the head of the rill. 



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