The course of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Yaru Tsampo</placeName> is still a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />matter of dispute; and consequently the upper <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />course of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Brahma-putra</placeName>. <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> in<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />clines to think the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Dih<subst> <del rendition="#erased" hand="#unknown">e</del> <add place="superlinear" hand="#unknown">o</add> </subst>ng</placeName>, <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Dib<subst> <del rendition="#ow" hand="#unknown">er</del> <add place="across" hand="#unknown">on</add> </subst>g</placeName> etc. de<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />fluents of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Tsampo</placeName> which thos divides <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the snow and <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased" hand="#unknown">trells</del> <add place="superlinear" hand="#unknown">seeks</add> </subst> many courses through <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that chain into the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Brahma-putra</placeName>. Whe<subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#erased" hand="#unknown">re</del> <add place="superlinear" hand="#unknown">n</add> </subst> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I consider the enormous precipitation all <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />allong the course of the latter river and that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it drains snowy mountains North, East and <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />South of its course in upper <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">Assam</placeName>, I can<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />not but suppose, that it has enough to do <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />without recieving the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Tsampo</placeName>. Does the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />latter then flow into the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006687 https://www.geonames.org/1545739">ocean</placeName> East of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006724">Irrawaddi</placeName>? or join the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020527 https://www.geonames.org/1815696">Yanzi kiang</placeName>? We <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />know, that the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006863 https://www.geonames.org/1252558">Himalaya</placeName> reach upper <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">Assam</placeName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />but whether the chain is thence continued <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />East, or turns South as the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020598 https://www.geonames.org/1262990">Mishmi<subst> <del rendition="#s" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee"> and</del> <add place="across" hand="https://edition-humboldt.de/addressee">an</add> </subst> hills</placeName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />is still undetermined and this probably will <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />indicate the course of that <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">mysterious river</placeName>.