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Notes on the Military Stations and the health of Troops 

 in Arracan, with some Statistical Returns. By John 

 Macpherson, M. D. 



At the close of the Burmese war several of the Company's 

 Medical Officers published ample accounts of their experience 

 of Arracan and of its deadly fever. But since the appearance 

 at that time of the papers of Messrs. Grierson, Burnard and 

 Stevenson, no contribution of any importance had been made 

 to our knowledge of the medical topography of Arracan, until 

 the appearance of Dr. Archer's paper in the last No. of this 

 Journal. Major Tulloclr's short report on Arracan, in his last 

 volume of returns, forms no exception to this statement ; as 

 it adds nothing to the facts recorded by Mr. Burnard, on 

 whose excellent paper it appears to be based. 



As great changes have taken place of late years in the pro- 

 vince, it is proposed with the aid of what has been already 

 written, and of some personal knowledge of portions of the 

 country, to give a slight sketch of its topography, and some 

 account of its climate and the health of troops stationed in 

 it, along with a few tables, compiled from such scanty returns 

 as the kindness of the Secretary to the Medical Board has 

 rendered available. 



I. — Topography. 



The province of Arracan is a narrow strip of land, the 

 breadth of which varies from thirty to fifty miles. Its ex- 

 treme length from Chittagong to Cape Ne- 

 General deseription. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 



considered 400 miles : on the east, it is separated from Bur- 

 mah by a range of mountains varying from 2,000 to 5,000 

 feet in height, probably consisting of gneiss, which run nearly 

 north and south, but gradually approach the coast as they 

 extend southwards : on the west, its shores, which are gene- 

 rally rocky, consisting of sandstone with a cincture of live 



