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western side of a high range of mountains, running along the western or right 

 bank of the Tenasserim river. At its mouth, which is in about 13° 9' N. Lat. 

 and 98° 43' E. Long, and about 50 miles from Mergui ; it is about 700 

 feet, but narrows higher up towards the village of Palouk in 12° 16' N. Lat. 

 and 99° 8' N. Long. Soon after passing the village it becomes in places 

 very shallow, and a succession of rapids and falls are met. Having ascended 

 as far as I could in a small canoe, which was dragged over rapids, I performed 

 the latter part of the journey by land, in consequence of the river becoming too 

 shallow and the rapids or falls getting stronger and steeper. In returning how- 

 ever I descended the stream the whole way on a small bamboo raft, and the 

 highest fall I encountered was about 3f or 4 feet. 



" The hills which from Palouk range along the sides of the river, are by no means 

 high, but covered with thick jungal and high trees. 



" There are two spots where the springs shew themselves, one immediately on 

 the right bank of the river, (which is here about 100 feet wide,) with some in the 

 river itself, and the other about two or three minutes walk to the northward in- 

 land. Over and around the former ones, a mound of circular stones (No. 1.) of 

 various sizes, (the largest about four or five miies in diameter,) was caked together 

 with hardened clay, bearing the appearance of stone. The whole of this mound 

 had externally a blackish appearance, and in some places, small circular basons 

 had been found by springs now dry. 



" All the springs now discharging are close to the waters edge or in the water ; 

 they issue from under the rocks, through a sandy bottom. The orifices are very 

 small, and not above two inches deep. The thermometer being dipped in the 

 hottest rose to 196° Fahr. The water from these was put into the small bottle 

 (No. 1.) Their height above the sea I estimate about two hundred feet. 



"The second springs a little inland, are larger and deeper. They are situated 

 in a small open space; there must be about thirty or forty bubbling up along a 

 line of about fifty feet by twenty, the largest being at the northern extremity. I 

 took the water from the two largest springs, one about three and a half feet deep 

 and two feet in diameter, and the other about half the size. In both of these 

 (from which the other two bottles of water were taken), the thermometer indicated 

 a heat of 194° Fahr. The ground at the bottom is of a dark shining color ; here 

 and there resembling the color of brickdust. The trees and grass gro<v luxu- 

 riantly around, and in the open space the marks of hog, deer, &c. are seen ; 

 the natives say some of the animals come to enjoy a draught of the water. 



"The springs are in about 13° 20' N. Lat. and 90° 19' E. Long. Though 

 vapours rise from the springs no disagreeable smell pervaded the atmosphere, 

 nor had the water a very disagreeable taste. 



" There are other springs about ten or twelve miles in a N. N. W. direction 

 from these, at a place called Pe. There is nothing in this neighbourhood that 

 I am aware of, indicating volcanic agency. Some very lofty, abrupt and 

 broken peaks of considerable height are seen to the N. E. but many miles dis- 

 tant. The other hills however are regular in their formations, &c. I visited 

 these springs in November, 1836 : — on that occasion I only took water from the 

 last mentioned springs, not being able to get at the spring, as I did this time by 

 means of bamboos formed into a small bridge ; I was obliged to attach the thermo- 

 meter to the end of a long rod by a piece of string, and thus dipped the thermo- 

 meter into the spring. The instrument at the end of the stick swung about like 

 a fish at the end of a line, I therefore concluded that the thermometer must 

 have fallen several degrees before it reached my hands." 



Professor O'Shaughnessy noted a curious fact connected with the late 

 whirlwind. 



" One of the pupils of the Medical College had seen fall near Dum-Dum a large 

 mass of what he considered to be hail, but finding that it did not melt he took 

 it to the college and it proved to be a lump of pure salt. Dr. O'S. does not 

 think from its appearance that it was manufactured salt, and if as suggested in 

 a note published this month it was carried up from the Baliaghat salt works, 

 it had evidently travelled northward against the wind." 



Colonel Stacy submitted for determination of its nature a fossil hone 

 of a large animal fossilized with lime — also for inspection some beautiful 

 drawings by his native artist of many sections of fossil teeth made under 

 his directions. 



