or Sanpo, the vulgar name of one of the most mighty rivers in the world. The name it generally goes by, and by which it is best known, is that of Burramootter. Of this most majestic body of waters we have the following very animated account in Maurice's Indian Antiquities. "An object equally novel and grand now claims our attention; so novel, as not to have been known to Europeans in the real extent of its magnificence before the year 1765; and so awfully grand, that the astonished geographer, thinking the language of prose inadequate to convey his conception, Scarce the Muse herself Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing waters; to whose dread expanse, Continuous depth, and wond'rous length of course, Our floods are rills.

"This stupendous object is the Burrampooter, a word which in Shanfrit signifies the son of Brahma; for no meaner origin could be assigned to so wonderful a progeny. This supreme monarch of Indian rivers derives its source from the opposite side of the same mountain from which the Ganges springs, and taking a bold sweep towards the east, in a line directly opposite to the course of that river, washes the vast country of Tibet, where, by way of distinction, it is denominated Sansee, or the river. Winding with a rapid current through Tibet, and, for many a league, amidst dreary deserts and regions remote from the habitations of men, it waters the borders of the territory of Lassa, the residence of the grand Lama; and then deviating with a cometary irregularity, from an east to a south-east course, the mighty wanderer approaches within 200 miles of the western frontiers of the vast empire of China. From this point its more direct path to the ocean lay through the gulph of Siam; but with a deftly course peculiar to itself, it suddenly turns to the west through Assam, and enters Bengal on the north-east quarter. Circling round the western point of the Garrow mountains, the Burrampooter now takes a southern direction; and for 60 miles before it meets the Ganges, its sister in point of origin, but not its rival in point of magnitude, glides majestically along in a stream which is regularly from four to five miles wide, and but for its freshness, Mr Rennell says, might pass for an arm of the sea. About 40 miles from the ocean these mighty rivers unite their streams; but that gentleman is of opinion that their junction was formerly higher up, and that the accumulation of two such vast bodies of water, scooped out the amazing bed of the Megna lake. Their present confluence is below Luckipoor; and by that confluence a body of fresh running water is produced, hardly equalled, and not exceeded, either in the old or the new hemisphere. So stupendous is that body of water, that it has formed a gulph of such extent as to contain islands that rival our Isle of Wight in size and fertility; and with such restless violence does it rush into the ocean, that in the rainy season the sea itself, or at least its surface, is perfectly treacherous for many leagues out."