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qu'il coule vers le golphe de Bangale car du moins on scait surement que des limites du 

 Thibet il va Sud — oiiest a la mer, et que par consequent il coule vers Aracan, ou 

 pres de l'emboucliure du Gange dans le Mogul." 



That the Jesuits visited the extreme frontier, we have evidence in their table of 

 observed latitudes, in which we find Loughan-kouan, which is in the extreme S. W., " Lat. 

 23° 41' 40"," " Long. ]8° 32' 00"," (west of PeMn). San-ta-fou is not included in 

 this table ; but we may infer, from their informing us that its position is the result of seve- 

 ral triangles, that they were within sight of it, if not at the place ; still, however, between 

 San-ta-fou and Teng-ye-cheio, distant from each other about forty- two miles only, and of 

 which the position of the last was observed (both latitude and longitude*), does M. 

 Klaprotii venture to introduce this immense stream, which, in the words of le P. 

 " Gaubil, is beaucoup plus considerable que le Houaug-ho et le grand Kiang" — 

 " C'est la plus grande riviere que les Chinois connoissent." 



It is the more unfavourable to M. Klaproth's theory and argument, that he has 

 adopted the Bhanmo river as the channel for the Pin-lang-Kiang , for we have such easily 

 accessible proof that it is but a rivulet. Perhaps M. Klaproth had not seen Dr. 

 Hamilton's interesting accounts of the maps procured by him at Amerapura: he would 

 have observedf that the (Burmans) Mranmas distinguish the Banmo river as a Kliiaun, 

 or small river, in contradiction to Myeet, which is their term for a large one. The Chinese 

 word Alio, (which is applied by them to the Banmo rivulet,) has the same signification, 

 according to Dr. Hamilton.^ I have long been aware, from the accounts of Mranmas, 

 Shams, and also of the Chinese from Yunnan, mentioned in p. 350 of this Memoir, that the 

 Banmo river is one of very small size. But I can venture to assert roundly what is more 

 to the purpose. I rest upon the same authorities, and I have examined, at various times, 

 at least a dozen men of the nations mentioned, besides Singfos, who are in the habit of 

 visiting the western part of Yunnan ; that below the mouth of the Munkhung river, which 

 I place in latitude 24° 52', the Irawadi § does not either enter or proceed from Yunnan. 



* They therefore remained at Tcng-ye-chew some time. 



t " Accouut of a Map of the Route between Tartary and Amarapura." — Edinburgh Phil. Journal, p. 35. 



} Ditto— page 36. 



§ The Irawadi of Geographers— i. e. the principal stream. 



