of the biljg of Bpptan, immediately bordOTUg upon Bgfig§fe and in,
the tract of tew couiïtïy watered fey tót rïygrs that Sfew froia? thgis
to the soufJh, fesyond the apace si a degree §£. latitude % feat if is net
peculiar to these regions.- The same malady prevails among the
people inhabiting the Morung, Nipal, and Almora hill»? which,
joined to those of Bootan, jrun in continuaticp, and bound to the
northward, that extensive itraet of low tend* ejnhraeed fey the ISMgei
and the Bexhampooiter. Both these itLyeijs, prigtealfy flowing .frig®?
nearly the same aojarce, upon (putting this: chain, feke -tfeeif djaaüflgyy
öf the mountains, at tfrewide distance (af-^grat^fflB^idtngilBK fiiSW
each other, ind both afterwards run through a flat country, in copious
navigable streams, until they join together, and flow into the sea.
This same disease is also more particularly met with,in the low lands,
adjacent to these hills. From the frontier of Assam, which I refckon to
be in the twenty-seventh degree of north latitude and ninety-first degree
of east longitude, it is to be traced through Bijnee, Conch Bahar,-
Rungpore, Dinagepore, Pumea, Tirroót, and Betiah, along the northern
boundary óf Öwd, in Gooracpore, Barraitch, Pillibeat, and bn the
confines of Rohilcund, to Hurdewai,which is situated in thirty degu.es
north latitude, and seventy-eight degrees twenty-five minutes east longitude.
This wen, as I before observed, in Europe is called Goiter,
and has the effect, or rather is accompanied with the effect', arising;*,
from the same cause, of debilitating both the bodies and the minds of
those who are affected with it. The whole extent of. this low land^
immediately-joining to the hills, is skirted by a broad belt, from ten
to twenty miles in depth, abounding with the most exuberant Vege