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Thie principal river is the Krung Mautama, (of the Peguers,) or San- 

 lun, (of the Burmans,) which rises in a range of mountains to the north- 

 west of Che-ang Mai in Laos — passes within two or three days' march of 

 that capital — and after a turbulent course, apparently betwixt two of the 

 inferior ranges of the great belt, disgorges itself with impetuosity on the 

 plain just above the island of Ka Kayet, in about 18° 20' north latitude. 

 It is joined at the Ka Kayet stockade by the Yunzalen river, which flows 

 from the HapMm hills, lying in a north-west direction from hence ; and 

 which I believe to be the same, which I observed from the great Shui 

 Madu temple at Pegu, to bear as follows — the northern extreme N. N.E. — • 

 southern extreme E.J a part south — and about forty miles distant. But 

 the stream was found by me to have a bar of granite across, about eight 

 or ten miles beyond the stockade, and not to be navigable to the smallest 

 canoes. Hence it rolls more quietly on till it disembogues itself into the 

 sea at the Khyet Khami Pagoda. Opposite to Martaban, it may be about 

 a mile in width. 



The other rivers which swell it are the Dang Dami Kydng, which 

 joins it at Mahi Pkrd Pagoda; the Gym Kydng, which falls into it at 

 Phrd Pyu, or the " White Pagoda;'' the Attardm, or Attiydn river, 

 which enters it nearly opposite to the town of Martaban — the Wakru 

 Kydng, which disembogues near the Kyet Khami Pagoda — and the 

 Dang Wein Kydng, which pours itself into the Gulph of Martaban. 

 These are all navigable far inland by large boats. 



The chief hills within the province are part of the Tavai range, with 

 its branches — one of which is divided by the Sanlun river at Malamein. 

 It runs in low broken hills, about fifty miles north of the town of Marta- 

 ban, and joins the Jeu Kyet mountains — next a short range running across 

 one of the upper branches of the Attardm (or Attiydn) river — the Jeu 



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