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the jungle on the Eastern face. At 1.30 P. M. water boiled at 200.4. 

 Ther. 66° 5 (86° at Moulmein) ; giving 6676 feet above that place. 

 Took 2 p. m. altitudes,©, for Latitude, and made it 16° 12' 53" N. ; 

 Longitude by Acct. 98° 42' E. 



At 2£ p M. went up to the peak, the awful grandeur of which 

 was scarcely less impressive at this second visit, than at the first. 

 The path from my encampment lay South, through the thick copse, 

 then emerged into an open ridge, being the edge of the summit of 

 a vast bulging wall of bare granite that to the West sloped down- 

 wards indefinitely, its base being hidden by its own convexity. 

 This isthmus led about two hundred yards south, and then rose up 

 into a cone of bare granite, on the summit of which the indefatigably 

 zealous Buddhists had erected years ago two small pagodas. I have 

 been in the flimala both at Darjeling and in Nepal, and also on Table 

 Mountain, but have seen nothing approaching the tremendous 

 sublimity of this most singular pinnacle. It is, to East, South and 

 West, a nearly symmetrical dome, perfectly bare and smooth, saving 

 where here and there a boulder juts out, as if about to plunge into 

 the abyss below. The convexity of the dome conceals three-fourths 

 of its depth, so that the eye glances from its outline at once as it 

 were into infinity; and this gives an impression of immensity 

 which actual measurement does not realize, Below our feet a roll- 

 ing sea of white mist concealed the further side of the near valleys : 

 but beyond and above these the air was clear, and tier upon tier of 

 vast mountainous ridges lay sharply defined before us. To the South 

 the bluff precipices of Napulloo,* — a mountain the superstitious 

 Karens dare not tread, — confronted us; while, sweeping round by 

 the East to North East, the ranges of Dweepa Meekwyn, beyond, 

 that of Mogadook, and beyond, that of Pynkloong, each rising high- 

 er, up to probably nine thousand feet, closed up the horizon like a 

 tumultuous sea. Erom between these ranges, along the valleys, dim 

 in the far depths, ran the streams of the Meeklan, and Meetan,f 

 to the Houngthrau South West; and the Meekla to the Thoungyen 

 North East, with their countless tributaries, all radiating away from 



* The name is compounded of tf rtat" and " biloo," spirits and demons. 

 f Mee or Mey is the Shan or Siamese for a small river, and Meynam for a 

 large river. 



