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 <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />still a matter of dispute; & consequently <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the upper course of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Brahmaputra</placeName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011923 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118863703">Hodgson</persName> inclines to think the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Dihong</placeName>, <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/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Dibong</placeName> &c<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>,</orig> <reg /> </choice> defluents of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Tsanpo</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />which thus divides <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N.</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> of the snow & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />seeks many courses through that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />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>. When <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I consider the enormous precipitation <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />all along the course of the latter river <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& that it drains snowy <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>Mts</abbr> <expan>Mountains</expan> </choice> North<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />East & 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><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I cannot but suppose that it has <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#u">enough to do</hi> without receiving 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/H0010714 https://www.geonames.org/1208092">Tsampo</placeName>. Does the latter then flow <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />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 <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006724">Irrawaddi</placeName>? <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />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 know <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />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<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">es</supplied> upper <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/H0002582 https://www.geonames.org/1278253">Assam</placeName>, but whether <gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" reason="lost" unit="chars" quantity="1" /> the chain is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />thence continued East, or turns South, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020598 https://www.geonames.org/1262990">Mishmi &c hills</placeName>, is still <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />undetermined, & 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 <lb />river</placeName>.