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  THEOBALD: 
  GEOLOGY 
  OE 
  PEGU. 
  

  

  The 
  area 
  embraced 
  by 
  the 
  present 
  Report 
  is 
  not, 
  however, 
  strictly 
  

   bounded 
  by 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  the 
  province 
  of 
  Pegu, 
  but 
  includes 
  a 
  portion 
  

   of 
  the 
  adjoining 
  district 
  of 
  Tonghoo 
  (now 
  united 
  to 
  Tenasserim), 
  and 
  

   the 
  greater 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  district 
  of 
  Sandoway 
  in 
  Arakan 
  ; 
  though 
  the 
  

   examination 
  of 
  these 
  districts 
  has 
  been 
  from 
  several 
  causes 
  partial 
  and 
  

   incomplete. 
  Nor 
  can 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  the 
  province 
  be 
  strictly 
  adhered 
  to 
  

   when 
  sketching 
  its 
  physical 
  geography, 
  inasmuch 
  as 
  its 
  main 
  features 
  

   are 
  common 
  to 
  it 
  and 
  the 
  adjoining 
  provinces. 
  Including, 
  therefore, 
  

   3,500 
  square 
  miles 
  in 
  Sandoway, 
  and 
  about 
  1,500 
  in 
  Tonghoo, 
  the 
  entire 
  

   area 
  to- 
  which 
  the 
  present 
  Report 
  applies 
  slightly 
  exceeds 
  40,000 
  square 
  

   miles. 
  * 
  

  

  * 
  The 
  details 
  of 
  area 
  and 
  population 
  given 
  above 
  are 
  extracted 
  from 
  the 
  " 
  Admin- 
  

   istration 
  Eeport" 
  of 
  the 
  province 
  for 
  1868-69 
  ; 
  hut 
  the 
  chapter 
  in 
  it 
  which 
  treats 
  of 
  the 
  

   " 
  Physical, 
  Political, 
  and 
  Fiscal 
  Geography" 
  requires 
  careful 
  revision 
  and 
  correction, 
  as 
  the 
  

   numbers 
  given 
  in 
  it, 
  and 
  those 
  recorded 
  in 
  the 
  statistical 
  tables 
  at 
  the 
  end, 
  do 
  not 
  corres- 
  

   pond 
  through 
  some 
  clerical 
  error, 
  the 
  source 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  am 
  unable 
  to 
  detect. 
  For 
  instance, 
  

   at 
  page 
  23, 
  Pegu, 
  including 
  Tonghoo, 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  embrace 
  33,440 
  square 
  miles, 
  whilst 
  in 
  

   Statistical 
  Table 
  C, 
  it 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  contain 
  36,454 
  square 
  miles. 
  The 
  disagreement 
  in 
  figures 
  

   may 
  be 
  a 
  clerical 
  error, 
  but 
  such 
  an 
  explanation 
  will 
  scarcely 
  serve 
  to 
  explain 
  the 
  startling 
  

   discrepancy 
  as 
  regards 
  the 
  boundary 
  of 
  Tonghoo 
  to 
  the 
  eastward 
  which 
  exists 
  between 
  

   the 
  statement 
  at 
  Page 
  XI 
  of 
  Statistical 
  Table 
  A 
  2 
  and 
  the 
  boundary 
  as 
  laid 
  down 
  by 
  

   Captains 
  FitzRoy 
  and 
  Edgecombe 
  in 
  their 
  official 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  province, 
  dated 
  March 
  1867, 
  

   with 
  revision 
  up 
  to 
  February 
  1868. 
  Under 
  the 
  head 
  Tonghoo 
  we 
  read 
  (loc 
  cit.). 
  — 
  "There 
  

   are 
  three 
  mountain 
  ranges 
  in 
  the 
  district, 
  running 
  parallel 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  and 
  the 
  Sittoung 
  

   river, 
  the 
  Pegu 
  " 
  Yomah," 
  the 
  " 
  Poungloung," 
  and 
  the 
  " 
  great 
  watershed." 
  The 
  highest 
  

   of 
  these 
  is 
  the 
  great 
  watershed, 
  which 
  at 
  Nattoung 
  attains 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  8,000 
  feet 
  

   above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  sea." 
  

  

  Now, 
  in 
  the 
  map 
  of 
  Pegu 
  by 
  Captains 
  FitzRoy 
  and 
  Edgecombe 
  published 
  by 
  Govern- 
  

   ment, 
  the 
  boundary 
  of 
  Tonghoo 
  is 
  distinctly 
  laid 
  down 
  as 
  following 
  the 
  crest 
  of 
  the 
  

   Poungloung 
  range 
  from 
  the 
  Burmese 
  Frontier, 
  close 
  to 
  19° 
  30', 
  to 
  where 
  the 
  range 
  is 
  crossed 
  

   by 
  the 
  Thoukyay-gat 
  river, 
  a 
  distance 
  of 
  41 
  miles; 
  whilst 
  the 
  crest 
  of 
  the 
  "great 
  

   watershed," 
  meaning 
  the 
  range 
  separating 
  the 
  drainage 
  areas 
  of 
  the 
  Sittoung 
  and 
  Salwin, 
  is 
  

   shown 
  by 
  the 
  map 
  to 
  be 
  no 
  less 
  than 
  a 
  fraction 
  under 
  36 
  miles 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  Poungloung 
  

   range 
  in 
  the 
  parallel 
  of 
  19° 
  30', 
  or 
  36 
  miles 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  boundary 
  as 
  laid 
  down 
  

   by 
  the 
  officers 
  of 
  the 
  Pegu 
  Survey. 
  If, 
  therefore, 
  the 
  passage 
  above 
  quoted 
  from 
  the 
  

   Administration 
  Report 
  of 
  1868-69 
  regarding 
  the 
  inclusion 
  of 
  the 
  Poungloung 
  range 
  within 
  

   the 
  Tonghoo 
  district 
  is 
  a 
  clerical 
  error, 
  it 
  is 
  one 
  which 
  amounts 
  in 
  fact 
  to 
  the 
  annexation 
  

   of 
  the 
  entire 
  drainage 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  Thouk-yay-gat 
  below 
  the 
  frontier, 
  comprising 
  some 
  1,000 
  

   square 
  miles 
  of 
  hilly 
  country, 
  possessing 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  finest 
  climates 
  in 
  the 
  east, 
  and 
  inhabit- 
  

  

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