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therefore confined to the spot from which I obtained the results de- 

 tailed above. 



13. Four other rivers emptying themselves into the Lesser Tenasse- 

 rim, are said to produce tin, but none are so accessible as the Tha- 

 bawlick. 



The following are the names of these streams, with their distances 

 from the Thakiet river : — 



The Khamoungtang River, one day by the Little Tenasserim, and one 

 march inland. 



Engdaw River, no road through the jungle. 



Kyeng ditto, two days by the river, and two days inland. 



Thapyn ditto, three days by the river, and one march inland. 



From the Khamoungtang specimen. No. 9, weighing 2,890 grains, 

 was collected in ten washings, but I did not visit the place myself. 



The size of the tin is larger than that collected in other places, 

 though the produce is not equal in quantity. 



14. After returning to Tenasserim, I visited Loundoungin River, 

 where tin was said to exist, but it turned out to be Wolfran sand, which 

 had been washed down from the adjoining slate mountains, and was 

 lying on the surface of the sandy bed of the stream. 



1 5. In proceeding down the Great Tenasserim River towards Mergui, 

 I halted at Moetong, for the purpose of visiting a tin ground which was 

 said to exist near the range of hills to the N. E. skirting the open 

 plain in which this place is situated. On penetrating to the hill itself, 

 I found it to consist exclusively of granite, with not a trace of another 

 rock of any description. The dry beds of the water-courses consisted 

 of granitic sand alone. 



There were many excavations for tin on the face of the hill. Several 

 loads of gravel from the bottom of the pits and from the beds of the 

 water-courses were carried to the river and washed, but the out-turn 

 of tin was very small. There is no water within convenient reach. 



16. The next spot visited was Kahan, a small hill near the Ze- 

 davoun Pagoda, on the right bank of the Great Tenasserim River, 1 1 

 miles from Mergui. The tin occurs here under conditions differing 

 much from that of the localities above mentioned. 



Kahan itself is the highest portion of a low ridge of hills, not more 

 than 200 feet above the level of the river ; it is composed of a soft, 



