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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1853

1854

of Montgomery Martin's Sketches of Eastern India " in enumeraing the rivers on the North bank of the Brahmapooter the whole of them are said to contain gold in their sands and the Subanshiri Dikrung Boopani Booragong and Boargon rivers of the Luckipore and Kullungpore districts are noted each as to the quality and quantity of their gold ; but otlrer small rivers in the Luckimpore di [...] There is every appearance of the existence of copper interspersed amongst these rocks: and most of the affluents of the Irrawaddy like the tributary rivers of the Brahmapooter abound in gold : but the most prolific sources of this metal appear to be well to the North where the mountain torrents have a short and turbulent course to the main river. [...] In the North East section of Assam that is round from the Nao Dihing at the confluence of the Duffa Pane° to the Dihong river little is known of the nature of the rocks in situ excepting at.dis-1853.] and Seesee rivers in URper Assam. [...] The boulders in the rivers besides those of the grits noticed are of the older rocks such as are found in the larger rivers to the East with the exception of the serpentine. [...] Salzes also similar to those on the South side of the valley are very common and it is an interesting geological fact that as the stratum on the Southern mountains is tilted up at an angle of 45° to the East the sedimentary rock stratum of these hills is tilted up to the North West and West and the stratum of the Brahma Koond to the North East.
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Pages
104
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Account of a Visit to the Jugloo and Scesee Rivers in Upper Assam by Capt. E. T. Dalton Together with a Note on the Gold Fields of that Province by Major Hannay
511-521 The Secretaries view
Catalogue of Reptiles Inhabiting the Peninsula of India.—By T. C. Jerdon Esq. Madras Medical Service
522-534 The Secretaries view
Catalogues of Oriental Libraries by Dr. A. Sprenger Secretary Axiatic is Society Bengal
535-540 The Secretaries view
Notes upon a Tour in the Sikkim Himalayah Mountains Undertaken for the Purpose of Ascertaining the Geological Formation of Kun-Chinjinga and of the Perpetually Snow-Covered Peaks in its Vicinity —By Captain Walter Stanhope Sherwill Revenue Surveyor
540-570 The Secretaries view
Note on the Ruins at Maunkyala —by Major James Abbott Boundary Commissioner Punjab
570-574 The Secretaries view
Literary Intelligence
574-575 The Secretaries view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
576-595 The Secretaries view
Abstract of Meteorological Observations for the Month of April 1853
596-598 The Secretaries view
Meteorological Observations Abstract of the Results of the Hourly Meteorological Observations Taken at the Surveyor General’s Office Calcutta in the Month of February 1853
599-610 The Secretaries view

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