1837,] 



from Ava to the Frontier of Assam, 



423 



of Drs. Richardson and Bayfield, and Lieutenant Macleod, with 

 such marked advantage, bids fair, in a comparatively short time, to 

 render the whole empire of Ava better known than the most san- 

 guine could have ventured to anticipate. Did the results of such 

 journies and investigations tend only to an increase of our geogra- 

 phical knowledge, they would even then be most valuable : but to 

 suppose that the consequences of this intercourse between intelligence 

 and ignorance are so limited, is to take a most inadequate view of the 

 subject: the confidence inspired by the visits and conduct of a single 

 individual,* has already opened a communication between Funan and 

 Moulmein, and the caravans of China have commenced their annual 

 visits to the British settlements on the coast : the journey of Captain 

 Hannay will in all probability lead to a similar result between 

 Assam and the northern districts of Funan-, and the time may not be 

 very distant, when British merchants located at Bamo, will, by their 

 superior energy and resources, extend its now restricted trade to sur- 

 rounding countries, and pave the way for ameliorating the condition 

 and enlightening the ignorance of their numerous inhabitants. — Jour" 

 n al of the Asiatic Society of Bengal pp. 245-278. 



4. — Report on the Physical Condition of the Assam Tea Plant, with 

 reference to Geological Structure, Soils, and Climate. — By John 

 M*Clelland, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, Bengal Establishment, and 

 ■ Member of the Asiatic and Medical Societies of Calcutta. — Present" 

 ed to the Agricultural Society of Calcutta, 8th February, 1837, by 

 desire of the Right Honourable Lord Auckland, Governor General of 

 India, fyc. fyc. fyc. 



[We have been favoured by the talented author with an able pamphlef 

 under the above title, which lias been printed in Calcutta as the first 

 fasciculus of the 4th vol. of the Transactions of the A gri- Horticultural 

 Society. We have abridged it to suit our pages.— Ed.] 



Geofo^y. —Approaching the Kossia mountains, I observed small in- 

 sulated knolls projecting abruptly out of the low marshy plains by 

 which they are surrounded. They are seen extending along the base 



* Dr. Richardson of Madras.— 'K. B. P. 



