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north : and this unexpected difcovery foon led to enquiries, 
which furnifhed me with an account of its general courfe to 
within roo miles of the place where du halde left the San- 
poo. I could no longer doubt, that the Burrampooter and 
Sanpoo were one and the fame river : and to this was added the 
pofitive alfurances of the Aflamers, “ That their river came 
, C6 from the north-weft, through the Bootan mountains.” And 
to place it beyond a doubt, that the Sanpoo River is not the fame 
with the river of Ava, but that this laft is the great Nou Kian 
of Yunan ; I have in my pofleffion a manufcript draught of the 
Ava River, to within 1 50 miles of the place where du halde 
leaves the Nou Kian, in its courfe towards Ava ; together with 
very authentic information that this river (named Irabattey by 
the people of Ava) is navigable from the city of Ava into the 
province of Yunan in China 
The Burrampooter, during a courfe of 400 miles through 
Bengal, bears fo intimate a refemblance to the Ganges, except 
in one particular, that one defcription may ferve for both. The 
exception I mean is, that, during the laft 60 miles before its 
junction with the Ganges, it forms a ftream which is regularly 
from four to five miles wide, and but for its freflmefs might 
pafs for an arm of the fea. Common defcription fails in an 1 
attempt to convey an adequate idea of the grandeur of this 
magnificent objeCt ; for, 
— — - Scarce the mufe 
Dares ftretch her wing o’er this enormous mafs 
Of rufhing water ; to whofe dread expanfe, 
Continuous depth, and wond’rous length of courfe, 
* The courfes of the Burrampooter and Ganges, as well as that of the Ava 
River from Yunan to the fea, will ihortly be defcribed in a large lheet map of 
HindooRan. 
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