JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Report on the Island o/Chedooba. — By Edward P. Halstead, Esq. 



Commander of her Majesty s Sloop 4 ChildersS 



Division. 1. General Appearance, History, and Division, . , Page 



2. Population, Revenue, Police, „ 



3. Soil and Productions, cultivated and natural ; Waste 



Lands, „ 



4. Climate, „ 



5. Manners and Customs, Education, Language, and 



Religion, ,, 



6. Geology, „ 



[For much of the information under the head of History, Police, Revenue, Manners 

 and Customs, 1 have been indebted to the kindness, and long residence in the country 

 of Captain D. Williams, Senior Assistant Commissioner at Ramree.] 



Division I. 



General Appearance, History and Division. 

 The Island of Chedooba measures 15| miles in length, viz. from 18° 

 40' to 18° 55' 30" N. Latitude, and 17 miles in width, viz. from 93 Q 30' to 

 93° 47' E. Longitude, and shews on the map as a square the S. W. 

 angle of which has been reduced. With its dependency of Flat Island on 

 the South Coast, it covers an area of about 200 square miles. Its general 

 appearance and character is that of a fertile well wooded Island of mo- 

 derate height, and irregular outline. A band of level plain, but little 

 raised above the sea, extends around its coasts, of far greater width on 

 the East than on the West ; within this lies, irregular, low, undulating 

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