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TIBET. 
the Berhampooter, in the language of Tibet styled Erechoomboo. It 
flows in a wide extended bed, and, as though the soil gave it an unwil¬ 
ling passage, it has forced itself through many channels, and formed 
a multitude of islands in its way. But though its bed appears so wide 
extended from hence, I was told, that its principal channel is narrow, 
deep, and never fordable. At this place, it receives the tributary waters 
of the Painomtchieu, which I traced from it source, soon after my 
entrance into Tibet, to this termination of its course. Its individuality 
and its name, are here lost in association with the superior body, like 
various other streams, which come both from the north and from the 
south, and contribute to the magnitude of the Berhampooter, before it 
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passes Lassa, and penetrates the frontier mountains, that divide Tibet 
from Assam. In this latter region, it receives a copious supply, from 
the sacred fountains of Brahma-koond, before it rushes to the notice of 
Europeans below Rangamatty, on the borders ofBengal, where it becomes 
a mighty river, exceeded in size by few that are yet known in the world. 
From hence it hastens on to meet its sister stream, the Ganges. 
These far-famed rivers are nearly related in their birth, as well as 
united in their termination; after their junction, under the common 
name of Megna, or Pudda, they run together but a short course, before 
they mix their waters with the sea, which flows up through a thousand 
channels to mingle with its expected guests, intersecting a large ter¬ 
ritory, termed the Sundrabunds,now destitute of inhabitants, but famed 
for the beauty of its groves. 
In infinite meanders, they pervade an extremely intricate labyrinth, 
the borders of which are sometimes visited by inland navigators, when 
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