Tartary and Amarayura^ by an Ambassador to China. 57 
• D’Anville, an authority always to be highly respected, con- 
sidered the Loukiang as the head of the Pegu river, and the 
Sanpoo of Thibet as the head of the Erawadi ; the Brahmapu- 
tra having been in a great measure unknown to him. Major 
Rennell having obtained better information respecting the last- 
mentioned river, made the Sanpoo and it the same ; and although 
Mr Dalrymple, when he compiled my materials for Captain 
Symes, still adhered to D’Anville’s opinion, I have no doubt 
that, to a certain degree at least. Major Rennell is in this cor- 
rect ; for among the Hindus of Nepal, the name Brahmaputra 
is the only one known for what is called Sanpoo in the Chinese 
survey of Thibet, published by Duhalde, but compiled by 
D’Anville. In Asam, again, although the term Brahmaputra 
is known, this great river, or the larger portion of it at least, 
running towards Bengal, is more commonly called Luhit or Rii- 
hit. While Major Rennell was thus able to correct the error of 
D’Anville, he was led, perhaps by the Universal History, into a 
hypothesis equally wrong, supposing the Lu or Loukiang of 
Yunnan to be the Erawadi, and not to run towards Pegu. It 
is true, that the river, which passes on the west side of the an- 
cient city of Pegu or Pago, is a stream of very inferior size, and 
rises in the country of the Mranmas ; but the Loukiang of 
Yunnan, or Saluaen of the Mranmas, runs through the king- 
dom of Pegu, and falls into the sea at Montama or Martaban, 
one of its principal cities, and the name Mien, placed by D’Afi- 
ville in his map of China on the banks of this river, seems no 
other than Mon, which is the appellation by which the proper 
natives of Pegu call themselves. By the natives, with whom I 
conversed, the Saluaen is said to be a rapid and considerable 
stream, by no means, however, to be compared in magnitude 
with the Erawadi, which equals the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Or 
other rivers in Asia of the first size. 
A little below Ava the Erawadi divides into two branches, 
each of great size ; that passing Ava equalling the Ganges at 
Banaras, while the other may be compared to the Yamuna at 
Kalpi. Now, the only two rivers between the Sanpoo and Loti- 
kiang, as represented in the Missionaries’ Survey of China, pu- 
blished in Duhalde, that could be at all taken for these two 
branches of the Erawadi, are the Kenpou and that passing 
