or GHERGHONG, a city of Assam, and formerly the principal town of that country, situated on the Dekhow river, one of the numerous tributary streams of the GERMAIN-Brahmapootra. It occupied formerly a very large space, en-Laye, every house being surrounded by a garden, and the rajah's palace being encompassed by a stockade of bamboos and a wet ditch; so that the city covered a space of nearly ten miles. The city, palaces, and fort are now a heap of ruins. Long. 94. 40. E. Lat. 26. 55. N.