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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal April 1839

1840

The boundaries of the country are Thibet to the north ; the plains of Assam and Bengal to the south ; Sikkim to the west ; and the Kapa country to the east. [...] During our stay at Punukka the regal of sacred part of the roof was blown oft; the clattering that ensued from the falling of the copper plates mixed with the noise of the shingles and stones of other parts of the palace was very great ; a deputation was immediately sent from the palace to request that we would fire off no more guns near the palace and we found out afterwards that we were.look [...] This scantiness at the base of the mountains is perhaps at its maximum -due north from Gowahatti in which direction the vegetation is almost entirely gramneous ; to the westward it certainly lessens but even to the north of Rungpore (Bengal) the woods are thin especially when contrasted with the Toorais of other portions ; at the same time the veietation of the lower ranges is in this direct [...] try every inch of which is highly cultivated ; yet the richness of the soil is in favour of the tracts immediately contiguous to the Hills and such are in Assam at least especially esteemed by the most laborious part of the population the Kacharies ; and were it not for this predeliction in favour of these tracts and the short-sightedness peculiar to a native population by which immunity fr [...] It must be rmembered that the cultivation of the Plain tracts is not as in some other instances carried on by the inhabitants of the mountains but by the natives of the Plains who after reaping the produce of their labour appeai to be compelled to take it to the first station in the Hills from which it is distributed to the appointed places.
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Pages
100
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Art. I.—Journal of the Mission which Visited Bootan in 1837-38 under Captain R. Boileau Pemberton by W. Griffith Esq. Madras Medical Establishment
251-291 Acting Secretaries view
Art. II.—Account of Tamba Patra Plates Dug up at Baroda in Goojrat; with Fucsimile and Translation
292-303 Acting Secretaries view
Art. III.—Collection of Facts which May be Useful for the Comprehen-Sion of Alexander the Great’s is Exploits on the Western Banks of the Indus (with Map)
304-313 Acting Secretaries view
Art. IV.—Remarks. upon the Rain and Drought of Last Eight Seasons in India. By the Rev. R. Everest Landour
313-316 Acting Secretaries view
Art. V.—Statistical Record of the Duration of Diseases in 13 019 Fatal Cases in Hindoos.—Extraordinary Mortality Among Lying-in Women—Compiled by Dr. Duncan Stewart Superintendent Ge-Neral of Vaccination
316-318 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VI.—Summary Description of Four New Species of Otter. By B.H. Hodgson Esq. Resident at Catmandu Nepal
319-320 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VII.—On the Geographic Distribution of the Vulturidæ Fulco-Nidæ and Strigidæ; Being the First of a Series of Memoirs Intended to Illustrate the Geographic Distribution of the Ornithological Kingdom. By Wm. Jameson Esq. Assistant Surgeon Bengal Medical Ser-Vice &C.
321-327 Acting Secretaries view
Art. VIII.—On the Use of Wells &c. in Foundations; as Practised by the Natives of the Northern Doab. By Captain Cautley Su-Perintendent of the Doab Canal
327-i Acting Secretaries view
Art. IX.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
341-345 Acting Secretaries view
Art. X.—Meteorological Register
346-346 Acting Secretaries view

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