JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



No. V. 1859. 



Itinerary, with Memoranda, chiefly Topographical and Zoological, 

 through the southerly portions of the district of Amherst, Province 

 of Tenasserim. With a Map. — By Major S. U. Tickell, 31st 

 Begt. B. N. I. and Deputy Commissioner of Amherst. 



And Copious Botanical Notes. — By the Bev. C. S. P. Parish, 

 Chaplain of Moulmein. 



The following observations pretend to little more than to furnish 

 the route through an extremely wild, in parts utterly unknown and, 

 generally speaking, uninteresting country and people. A consider- 

 able portion of this journey was through a tract hitherto unvisited 

 by any European, and in this region were traversed wide intervals, 

 utterly devoid of human inhabitants of whatsoever kind. Wild 

 and unprofitable as the country may now appear, it forms part 

 however of the most accessible line of inland communication between 

 Moulmein, and the capital of Siam, Bangkok ; and for this reason 

 alone, the notes here collected may not be altogether useless. 



A glance at any Map which incdudes this part of the world, on 

 however small a scale, shows that the province of Tenasserim is a 

 comparatively narrow strip of land, forming a seaboard to the 

 great southern spur or branch of the Himala, called in Arracan and 

 Burma the Yomadoung (or back bone mountains) which extends 

 southward skirting the districts of Amherst, Tavoy and Mergui, 

 till it passes into the Malayan peninsula. This narrow strip has 

 for its western boundary, from the furthest south, the sea, as far 

 north as Amherst, whence the demarcation is continued northward 



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