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Their country is fituated between Sylhet in Bengal and 

 that of the Tailoong above mentioned : to the north of 

 it is AJfam ; on the fouth AvaLm, and the rude tribes 

 bordering on that kingdom. Their capital city they 

 narne Mut; a. By the people of Bengal they arc 



tailed Muggaloos, an appellation with which thole we 

 few at Amardpura were totally unacquainted. This ' 

 name, however, Europeans have applied to the coun- 

 try, turning it at the lame time into Meekly. Kalliee 

 is the name given to this people by the Burmas, which 

 we alio have taken for the name of the country, and 

 corrupted into Cujfay, Mr. Rennel having from 

 Bengal obtained information of Meckley, and from Aixa 

 having heard of Cuffay, never conceived that they 

 were the lame, and, accordingly, in his map of 

 Hindu/tan, has laid denvn two kingdoms Cujfay and 

 Meckley ; for which, indeed, he had fufrlcient room, as 

 by Captain Baker's account he had been induced to 

 place A-i'd much too far to the call. 



