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is the place of its issue to the plains, but in fact winds round the groupe 

 situated in this gap and running first to the N. W. till it washes the base 

 to Thathutheya: it then traverses back to the southward. Immediately to 

 the east, the ranges at the distance of forty-five miles are high, and snow 

 is seen on some of them throughout the cold season, but the last peak in 

 that direction is the loftiest to be seen (of those whose heights have been 

 ascertained,) and so remarkable and magnificent a tower it is, that it has 

 been ever known amongst us by the name of Beacon, and it has been 

 seen* at the distance of one hundred and thirty miles. Turret Peak is 

 also remarkable near to Thathutheya in the horizon, but distant, that it 

 ought not to be forgotten. Beyond Beacon, or Dapha Bhum, as it is 

 called by the Singfos, the lofty mountains suddenly retrograde to a consi- 

 derable distance, and form a deep basin, the southern and eastern sides 

 of which are alone visible; through the centre of this basin, the Dihinv 

 winds, having its sources in the most distant point. 



On the 8th of October, the river had fallen considerably, and fair 

 weather had apparently set in when I started. I took with me ten young 

 Kltamtis from Sadlya, armed with muskets, and fifteen to carry my provi- 

 sions, my sextant, and a few clothes, and, to save the labor of building a 

 shed for protection from the heavy evening dews, I took as far as the 

 Luri Gohains village, a small tent. Lieutenant Burlton had been 

 appointed to join me, but I was not informed of this till I had advanced five 

 or six days' journey, and he was still at Bishenath. Even so small an 

 accession of strength to our party as his company would have given me, 

 might have given my labors a successful termination : for with one staunch 

 friend who knew how to use a double-barrelled gun, I should have been 

 very ill inclined to suffer myself to be bullied by the barbarian Mishmis : 



* By Lieutenant Dedingfeld. 



