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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 842 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NOWGONG , a See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

DISTRICT

district of See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India, in the See also:

BRAHMAPUTRA

Brahmaputra valley See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of eastern See also:

Bengal and See also:

ASSAM

Assam. The town is situated on the Kalang See also:

RIVER

river. Pop. (Igor) 4430. The district of Nowgong has an See also:

AREA

area of 3843 sq. m. It consists of a wide See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain overgrown with See also:

JUNGLE (Sans. jangala)

jungle and canebrakes, intersected by numerous tributaries of the Brahmaputra, and dotter' a,ith shallow marshes. The Mikir hills See also:

COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover an area of about 65 M by 35 in the S. of the district; the highest See also:

PEAK, THE

peak is about 3500 ft. The slopes are very steep, and are covered with dense fort. The Kamakhya hills near the See also:

BANK

bank of the Brahmaputra, are about 1500 ft. high. On the See also:

SUMMIT

summit of the highest peak is a celebrated See also:

temple of Kamakhya, the See also:

LOCAL

local goddess of love, where three See also:

ANNUAL

annual festivals are held. The See also:

STAPLE

staple See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop is See also:

rice. See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

Tea cultivation and manufacture are carried on by See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

capital and under European supervision, though the See also:

SOIL

soil and See also:

CLIMATE

climate are not so favourable`as in Upper Assam.

The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 19or was 261,160, showing a decrease of 24.8% in the See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade, due to the extreme unhealthiness of the climate. In the previous ten years the number of deaths recorded from See also:

FEVER (Lat. febris, connected with fervere, to burn)

fever and kala azar was 93,824. The See also:

section of the Assam-Bengal railway from See also:

GAUHATI

Gauhati to the hills passes through See also:

PART

part of the district, but not very near Nowgong town; and feeder roads to the stations See also:

lead from the See also:

main road that runs parallel to the Kalang river. See Nowgong District Gazetteer (See also:

CALCUTTA

Calcutta, 1905).

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