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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20132#0129
AREA I.
Assam and Delta op the Bkahmaptjtea and Ganges with the Naga, Khassia,
and Garro hills, and some remarks about the Iravadi.
Longitudinal from east to west: Brahmakund via Rajmahal to the Sanderbans.
In this area, many parts of which consist of wild and almost uninhabited districts,
we have been able, in addition to our own observations (by Hermann and his establish-
ment in 1855-6), to collect various materials for approximatively defining the general
topography of these regions.
As the Brahmaputra and the Iravadi, the two principal rivers of this area, form
at the same time its most prominent features, a descriptive sketch of their respective
courses will, we hope, contribute to the completion of the general characteristics of
these regions.
A. The Brahmaputra.
Assam, throughout its whole breadth, from the Khassia and Kaga hills up to
the southern foot of the Himalaya, was formerly the basin of a fresh-water lake, and
is now drained by the Brahmaputra, This mighty river runs through the country
from Brahmakund to Goalpara for a mean length, exclusive of its numerous small
curves, of more than 400 miles.
The entire surface of Assam presents a gentle, uniform slope, with a few isolated
granite hills, sometimes of no considerable mean elevation. The Brahmaputra nowhere
presents any remarkable contraction of its bed, and the only rapid of importance is
situated fifteen miles below its confluence with the Dihong.
The level of the Brahmaputra at Sadia is 210 feet.
A little to the south of the entrance of the Tista begins that part of the river
where the stream branches off in the shape of a delta, and shortly joins that of the
Ganges. The ebb and flood of the tide extend, in the season when the river is low.
Assam and Delta op the Bkahmaptjtea and Ganges with the Naga, Khassia,
and Garro hills, and some remarks about the Iravadi.
Longitudinal from east to west: Brahmakund via Rajmahal to the Sanderbans.
In this area, many parts of which consist of wild and almost uninhabited districts,
we have been able, in addition to our own observations (by Hermann and his establish-
ment in 1855-6), to collect various materials for approximatively defining the general
topography of these regions.
As the Brahmaputra and the Iravadi, the two principal rivers of this area, form
at the same time its most prominent features, a descriptive sketch of their respective
courses will, we hope, contribute to the completion of the general characteristics of
these regions.
A. The Brahmaputra.
Assam, throughout its whole breadth, from the Khassia and Kaga hills up to
the southern foot of the Himalaya, was formerly the basin of a fresh-water lake, and
is now drained by the Brahmaputra, This mighty river runs through the country
from Brahmakund to Goalpara for a mean length, exclusive of its numerous small
curves, of more than 400 miles.
The entire surface of Assam presents a gentle, uniform slope, with a few isolated
granite hills, sometimes of no considerable mean elevation. The Brahmaputra nowhere
presents any remarkable contraction of its bed, and the only rapid of importance is
situated fifteen miles below its confluence with the Dihong.
The level of the Brahmaputra at Sadia is 210 feet.
A little to the south of the entrance of the Tista begins that part of the river
where the stream branches off in the shape of a delta, and shortly joins that of the
Ganges. The ebb and flood of the tide extend, in the season when the river is low.