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ing the tin, and the posts of a house still standing, which is supposed 

 to have been occupied by a Siamese Superintendent of the work 

 there carried on. 



The season was too far advanced to enable me to prosecute my 

 enquiries towards the hills on this occasion, and my attention was 

 therefore confined to the spot from which I obtained the results de- 

 tailed above. 



13. Four other rivers emptying themselves into the Lesser Tenas- 

 serim, are said to produce tin, but none are so accessible as the 

 Thabawliek. 



The following are the names of these streams, with their distances 

 from the Thakiet river : — 



The Khamoungting river, one day by the Little Tenasserim, and 

 one march in land. 



Engdaw river, no road through the jungle. 



Kyeng ditto, two days by the river, and two days in land. 



Thapyn ditto, three days by the river, and one march in land. 



From the Khamoungting, Specimen No. 9, weighing 2890 grains 

 was collected in ten washings, but I did not visit the place myself. 



14. After returning to Tenasserim, I visited Loundoungin river, 

 where tin was said to exist, but it turned out to be wolfram sand, 

 which had been washed down from the adjoining slate mountains, 

 and was lying on the surface of the sandy bed of the stream. 



15. In proceeding down the Great Tenasserim river towards 

 Mergui, I halted at Moetong, for the purpose of visiting a tin 

 ground, which was said to exist near the range of hills to the N. E. 

 skirting the open plain in which this place is situated. On pene- 

 trating to the hill itself, I found it to consist exclusively of granite, 

 with not a trace of another rock of any description. The dry beds 

 of the water-courses consisted of granitic sand alone. 



There were many excavations for tin on the face of the hill; 

 several loads of gravel from the bottom of the pits and from the beds 

 of the w T ater-courses were carried to the river and washed, but the 

 out-turn of tin was very small. There is no water within convenient 

 reach. 



1 6. The next spot visited was Kahan, a small hill near the 

 Zedavoun Pagodah, on the right bank of the Great Tenasserim river, 



