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resembling in size and character the Shetland pony. Thishreed is found 

 from the confines ofChinatolhe Bilu Tag : on the western side of 

 which range of mountains it increases in size, and becomes theChougosha 

 horse of the Turks. The Tanghan is bred exclusively in the Kachar 

 division of Nepal : and but very rarely. 



We have no tame asses or mules ; man being, in Nepal, the sole u heast 

 of burthen ;" by reason of the steepness of the mountains, and the w r ant 

 of made roads. 



III. — Memoir of Giuseppe cVAmato. 



[Extract of a private letter from Major H. Barney, Resident at the Burmese 

 Court, dated Ava, 9th April, 1832.] 



I grieve to tell you, that the good Italian priest died last week at 

 Moun-lha, one of the small Catholic villages up the Moo river, near 

 Dibayen, and about 30 miles to the north-west of this city. It is 

 a pity that some account of the life of this humble missionary cannot 

 be communicated to the civilized world. He was a native of Na- 

 ples, and his name was Giuseppe d'Amato, although he was better 

 known to his Catholic flock, who understand only Burmese and the 

 native dialect of Portugueze, by the style and title of Padre Don 

 Jose. He and another priest, Luizi de Grondona, or as he was 

 styled Don Louis, were deputed from Rome by the Society De 

 Propaganda Fide, at the peace of Versailles in 1783. They went 

 to England for a passage to this country, where they arrived 

 sometime in 1784. Soon after, the wars of the French revolution 

 put a stop to all communication between them and Europe, and 

 for upwards of 30 years they received no assistance whatever from 

 their Parent Society, and were obliged to trust to their own exertions 

 and to the charity of their followers, who are most of them in 

 a state of poverty themselves, for the means of subsistence. 

 They were both skilled in medicine and surgery, but particularly 

 Don Louis, of whom very honorable mention is made by Colonel Symes 

 in his second mission in 1803, and by Captain Canning, on several 

 occasions. Don Louis died in this city about nine years ago. 



Don Jose usually resided in the midst of his flock, which occupy 

 five small villages, distant from each other from four to 10 miles, and 

 situate in the district of Dibayen to the north-west of this city. The 

 names of these villages and number of houses in each are stated to be 

 as follows ; 



