Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy . , fur-nished you, were obtained by me during my late excursioninto the interior of Bengal. They were presented to meby Captain Alexander Davidson of the honourable EastIndia Company, stationed at Goalpara, situate on the Bur-rampooter river in Assam. This district of country wasformerly attached to the Burmese empire; but at presentis in possession of the East India Company, and constitutesthe north-eastern limits of their territory in this quarter. The Ourang, of
Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy . , fur-nished you, were obtained by me during my late excursioninto the interior of Bengal. They were presented to meby Captain Alexander Davidson of the honourable EastIndia Company, stationed at Goalpara, situate on the Bur-rampooter river in Assam. This district of country wasformerly attached to the Burmese empire; but at presentis in possession of the East India Company, and constitutesthe north-eastern limits of their territory in this quarter. The Ourang, of which I am now to speak, called bythe Assamese i HoolockJ is to be met with on the Garrow-Hills in the vicinity of Goalpara, between latitudes twenty-five and twenty-eight degrees north, and the specimensbrought to this country by me were taken within a fewmiles of the town of Goalpara. The full-grown one, whichat this time you have prepared, was in my possession,alive, from the month of January to May, when it diedfrom a blow it received across the lumbar region, inad-vertently inflicted with a small stick by one of my ser-. i #\ 11
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