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Excerpt from Wild Races of South-Eastern India Rising from the vice swamps and level land of the Chittagong District, of which it forms the eastern boundary, stretches out a vast extent of hilly and mountainous country, inhabited by various hill races. Of this country and of these people I purpose here to give some account, but more especially I shall notice such part of it, as, lying between Lat. 21 25' and 23 45' north, and Long. 9l 45' and 92 50' east, is subject to British rule, and distinguished by the name of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The country in question is bounded on the west by the maritime District of Chittagong; on the south and east, as tar as the Blue Mountain, by the Province of Arracan; on the north, by the Fenny River, which divides the Hill Tracts from Hill Tipperah, a semi-independent State; while to the north and north-east the boundary is undefined, and may be said to be conterminous with the extent to which the influence of the British Government is acknowledged amongst the hill tribes in that direction. The extent of the district, however, may be roughly summarised as the country watered by the Rivers (1) Fenny, (2) Kurnafoolee, (3) Sungoo, and (4) Matamooree, with their tributaries from the watersheds to the entry of these rivers into the Chittagong District. The River Fenny and the western major tributaries of the Kurua-foolee have their sources in the range of hills from which, on the other side, rises the Dallesur and Gotoor streams, which again are affluents of the River Barak in Cachar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."