1840.] the Report of the Coal Committee. 585 



I cannot avoid noticing, that a most interesting point of geographi- 

 cal research still remains involved in doubt; viz. the breadth of the 

 Peninsula between the Mergui Archipelago and the Gulf of Siam ; the 

 advantages which might result to Government, both in a political and 

 commercial point, by an investigation into the subject, has already 

 been brought forward by Captain Lloyd and others, and it is to be hoped, 

 now that our attention is called to the Eastward, that this portion of the 

 Peninsula by which the communication across might be facilitated and 

 shortened, may be examined by experienced and intelligent Surveyors. 



Calcutta, July 21th, 1840. 



Note. — I had received the above interesting geographical notice, when 

 it occurred to me to refer the subject to Capt. J. Lloyd, of the Indian Navy, 

 so well known by his recent valuable surveys in the Bay of Bengal, 

 which with Capt. Macleod's ready permission, was done accordingly. The 

 result of the reference appears in the following notes, addressed to me 

 by these officers, which will better explain their views and opinion on 

 a geographical point of some interest when given in the original, than 

 would be the case were I to attempt to embody their contents in a more 

 compendious form. QQg 



From Captain Lloyd to the Officiating Secretary. 

 " We know nothing of the Coast about and below Cin Point beyond 

 what the old maps afford us, and which disagree very much ; indeed, 

 this portion of coast seems to be very little known, and is a part 

 which I pointed out as desirable to be surveyed three years ago. Capt. 

 Macleod has had access to all the charts and information that I have 

 been enabled to get hold of, and therefore there are no additions or 

 alterations in his map that I could venture to make ; but as my recent 

 survey makes the mouth of the Pakchan river, which forms the 

 boundary of the British territory, considerably further to the south- 

 ward than laid down in Captain Pemberton's map (nearly a degree), I 

 would suggest that Champhon be brought further down, so as to cor- 

 respond with the best information we possess of its being nearly east 

 from, or on the parallel of the town of Pakchan or Karao." 



From Captain Macleod to the Officiating Secretary. 

 " Many thanks for the perusal of Captain Lloyd's note, which I have 

 kept longer than was intended, to make some additions to the sketch. 



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