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The sources of two rivers may iadeed lie within a few miles of each 

 other on opposite sides of a hill or a range — yet the spot where they 

 respectively lose the name of mountain torrents, and become navigable, 

 may be very widely asunder. It is true, that by running up the Kra, or 

 any other stream in a boat, a traveller may get within two or three days 

 march of the place of embarkation on a river on the opposite coast : and 

 this is all that can, with our present information, be admitted. All the 

 rivers on this coast are wide, and some are deep at their mouths ; but, 

 with the exception of the T'enaserim and Tavoy rivers, which incline to 

 the northward and avoid the hills, they suddenly contract and grow 

 shallow. Tin abounds betwixt Junk-ceyloii and Mergui. 



The coast of Teiiaserim, from 10° to 12° 30' N. is shut out from the 

 ocean, by high and generally rocky islands. 



Those which form the west side of Forres fs Straits, up to the N. point 

 of Domel, in 11° 3' N. (instead of IT 21' as he gave it), are well wooded, 

 and are chiefly composed of granite. Domel is a fine island, twenty 

 miles in length, by twelve, or thereabouts, in breadth, with a rocky coast. 

 On sailing past a spot, described and sketched in Forrest's work, and at 

 which he mentions having taken in marble ballast, I could only find, a 

 great quantity of large smooth boulders of quartz, which had been asso- 

 ciated with slate ; for, upon inspection of the coast, thick strata of soft, 

 black slate, with veins of quartz, were discovered. The slate had, in 

 some places, jap admixture of iron ore. 



In co,asting Domel, the hills on the mainland are distinctly perceiv- 

 able. The highest point was conjectured to be about three thousand feet 

 high. These hills belong to the great range in all probability. Thelughest 

 I peak of l^t. 3Iatlheivs Island, may be nearly as high. 



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