1842.] in Ava, to Aeng in Arracan. 1157 



Some parts of the road on the mountain require a good deal of 

 repair and widening, and it would be requisite to sink tanks at the 

 watering places and cut paths to and from them; but taking every thing 

 into consideration, it is my opinion that a battalion of Pioneers sent 

 one week in advance, would render the road quite passable for an 

 army. The want of sufficient open ground to encamp in, would prove 

 an inconvenience, but does not exist for many marches. 



The importance of the new road we were exploring, the circum- 

 stances of the country we passed through, never before having been 

 traversed by an European, and the manners of the natives we met 

 with, being but little known, have induced me to make this unusually 

 long report to you, in the hope that some of the information it con- 

 tains may perhaps hereafter prove useful, should the Aeng road again 

 be passed by British troops. 



I have &c. &c. 



(Signed) T. A. Trant, 

 Lieut. H. M. 95th Regiment, 

 Deputy Assistant Quarter Master General. 

 To the Quarter Master General of the Army, Fort William. 

 Judical Department, the *]th November, 1 837. 

 (True Copies,) 



(Signed) F. J. Halliday, 

 Officiating Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 



Capt. Manson's Journal of a Visit to Melum and the Oonta Dhoora 

 Pass in Juwahir. Edited by J. H. Batten, Esq. C. S. for the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society. 



In our Proceedings for March 1842 will be found an account of 

 the recovery of a part of Captain Herbert's Journal of the Mineralogi- 

 cal Survey in the Himalaya, and in those of August the kind offer 

 of our most zealous and able associate Mr. Batten, Assistant Com- 

 missioner in Kemaon, to edit Captain Manson's Journal, which forms 

 part of Captain Herbert's papers, which we need not add was most, 

 gratefully accepted by the Society. The following paper is the one 

 which he there alludes to, and the reader, or the intending traveller, 

 will peruse it with the satisfaction of knowing that its details and its 

 experience are fully confirmed by two more travellers in those danger- 

 ous regions. 



