History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c41.s1.1

v3.c41.s1.1

At the extreme north-eastern corner of our country, through a cleft in the Himalayan range, the drainage of the Tibet plateau escapes into India. Arrested by the rocky wall of the Garo Khasia and Naga hills on the south, the mighty volume of water sweeps westwards, scoring out a deep and broad bed nearly four hundred miles long, from Sadiya to Dhubri, and then turns due south to mingle with the Ganges at Goalnanda. This river is the Brahmaputra, and its valley is the province of Assam. From East Bengal it is divided by the long succession of hills that begin at the s. w. corner of the province and end, in the extreme east, in the Patkoi range, the border-line between Assam and Burma.