The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal May 1837

Our halts were as 'follows :—on the third day the bed of the Lohit ; on the fourth at the mouth of the Lang ; on the fifth at G A LOOM*S whose village has been removed to the banks of the Lohit and at a distance of about one hour's march in advance from the old site. [...] The torrents which are passed between the foot of the hills and OltikLoom's are the Tussoo (Dissii of WiLcox) which separates Thumathaya from Deeling the Lung and the O. Of these the Lung is the only one not fordable ; the Mishmees cross it by suspension canes. [...] The method adopted in that article for computing the risks of life in the Civil Service of the Bengal Presidency has met the entire approbation of the most able actuaries in England and the tables have not only been adopted as affording the best estimate forthcoming of the chances of life amongst persons in good circumstances in the climate of India but attempts have likewise been made to apply [...] if not of the precise idiom at least of the connected dialects of the Sindhi language ?— Have not the words Sindhi and Hinds' a common origin the permuttion of the h and s being nothing more in fact than the same difference of dialect which is preserved to this in the twin names of the river Sinde and Indus This at leaSt is one of the most plausible theories of the origin of the name of Indi [...] Here we find the mass of the language (excluding of coarse the Persian infusion) merely a little different in spelling and inflexion from the Brijbhcikd or pure Hindi of Upper India ; while there is a strong agument that the Sindhf is the elder of the two in the more regular and elaborate inflexions of its cases and tenses ; and particularly in the complete conjugation of the auxiliary v€ibs h