eampnng consists of about 50 or 60 bouses con- 

 taining, on the usual average of 5 tea house, from 

 250 to 300 inhabitants. 



Siogora, the next town to the northward, lies 

 in N. Lat. 7* 35, and appears from a very early 

 period to have been tributary to iSiara. Gervaise* 

 says that ** about the year 1673 this city rehtlkd 

 against the king of Siam," which leads us to infer 

 that a long succession of years had caused it at 

 that period to be considered a province of that 

 kingdom. It was speedity reduced to its former 

 «tate of subjection, and i lie city demolished. The 

 same author, states that the new town was large 

 and beautiful, but not otherwise considerable. 

 Singora, however, owing to its being the tirst 

 Siamese town on the eastern coast of the Penin- 

 sula, presents a striking contrast to the scenery 

 which the traveller meets with in that portion of 

 it which is properly Malayan. The Siamese, be- 

 ing Buddhist sectarians, are, of course, idolaters, 

 and it requires no stretch of the imagination, as 

 you near the coast, and see the hills and vallies 

 studded with innumerable pagodas, wliilst the yel- 

 low-robed taiupotm, with their begs'^g boxes, 

 move musingly along, for the spectator to believe 

 himself at once transported to the regions of Bur^ 

 mah 



It is a singular circumstance that, wherever 

 idolatry has prevailed, the groves" and the 

 high hills," so often alluded to in scripture, as 

 being the spots selected by the heathen of old, 

 should ever be the favorite sites of the temples of 

 the Pagan witness tiie Druidical groves of an- 

 cient Britain, and the pagodas which glitter on 



