588 Note on the Map attached to [No. 102. 



certainly for many miles towards, or in the Burmese territories now 

 ceded to the British, as far as I know or saw. 



That the place is the same as alluded to by me, the similarity of 

 the name, making allowances for Burmese and Siamese pronunciation, 

 will show ; the Burmese call it Thaing-Khon-Myo ; Mr. Leal, Sing- 

 Khon-Thape. Myo is the Burman word for a town, and may correspond 

 in signification to the Siamese word Thape, which has been dropped 

 by the Burmese, and the other substituted for it. 



That the stream the party came upon was the little Tenasserim, or 

 that part of it called the Thaing-Khon river, there can be no doubt, 

 both from the length of time they were coming down on rafts, which 

 on the great Tenasserim would have placed their starting point much 

 too far north, and from the channel being obstructed by trees, which 

 is not the case with the latter, but which I found to be with the 

 former. The party themselves were of two opinions as to which branch 

 they were on. This I think will bear me out in what I said respect- 

 ing the hills, marking our boundary in the map of the Coal Committee. 



The next point to be noticed is the Pakchan and Choomphon rivers, 

 jointly. Mr. Leal proceeded up the former river, and travelled by 

 land to the town of Choomphon. He does not appear, however, 

 to have made use of a compass in ascending the river, for in the 

 sketch, its course is marked as being from east to west, and that 

 of the Choomphon river, which he says is very winding, from west 

 to east. The late Dr. Heifer, found the course of the former to be from 

 the NE. ; now as Mr. Leal has made a mistake in this, is it not 

 possible that he has followed up the error in the latter, and made 

 it run from the West instead of the SW. ? If so, there would 

 be no necessity for moving the mouth of the Choomphon river to 

 the Southward, but merely to change its, course as marked by me 

 on the map. 



All the information obtained by Captain Lloyd, and what Mr. Leal 

 says, would justify the removal of the town and river of Choomphon as 

 proposed by Captain Lloyd, but there would be some difficulty in 

 accommodating the ether places on the Siamese coast to it. Some 

 of these may have been correctly laid down. 



Choomphon had a force stationed at it when the Burmese held 

 the Tenasserim Coast, to watch their proceedings, and also to make 



