S U M A T R A. 
Kingdom of Achcen — Frefettt flate of it's Commerce — Air and 
foil — Inhabitants — Gouernment — Revenues— Modes of puuffh" 
ing criminals. 
^CHEEN (pTo^tvly AcH)^ is the only langdom of Sumatra, that 
ever arrived to fuch a degree of political confeqnence in die world, 
as to occafion it's trail fadlions becoming the fubjcd of general hi (lory. 
But ifs prefent condition is widely different from what ic waSj when by 
it's power t!ie Portuguefe were expelled from the idand, and it's princes 
received embaffies from all the great potentates of Europe, 
It's fituation occupies the North Weft extreme of the ifland, The ex- sftuatwa, 
tent, ftri(£lly fpeaking, teaches no farther, inland, than about forty or 
fifty miles, to the fouth eaft, and now but little farther even on the fea 
coaft ; though formerly it's king boa fled a dominion as far down as Xh' 
drapoufy and pofTcfled complete jurifdidtion at TkoQ. A place called C&r- 
tyy not far dlttaut frum Bafioa Bar a river ^ forma the boundary on the 
eafl coaft; the principal intermediate towns being Pedecr^ Smerlonga^ 
and Pafay. On the Weft coall it extends to Baroos ; between which and 
Acheeny lie Tappaosy Sinkell^ Tampat Xooan^ Lahooan Hadjee^ Soofoo^ Nar 
hhOf Arigas^ and Byah^ 
The interior inhabitants, from Acheen to Sinkelly are diflinguifiied into 
ihofe of AUas^ Reeah^ and Carroiv* The Achenefe manners prevail 
among the two former, but the Carnm people refemble the Battasy 
whofc country they are divided from by a chain of mountains. 
On a river which empties itfelf near the North Weft point, or Acheen ^^pj^t^ 
head, ftands the capital, about two miles from the qualloe or mouth, in 
a wide valley, formed like an amphitheatre, by two lofty ranges of 
• It u &id, by tlw Malays, to hare Iwcn fo aamtd from a fpecici of tr« calltd Aebif peculim: 
to that place* 
hills 
