' Heir-appafent of Ava, 
In this ma^ Migiaunraeh is placed to the north of Patanago; 
but j in passing both up and down, the place called to me Pa- 
tanago was farthest north. This may have arisen from my 
having transposed the names in copying, otherwise it would 
rander us more doubtful of the general accuracy of the map. 
In this map, the capitals of principalities are marked by a 
.double-circle, the chief places of governments by circles, and 
places dependent on the latter by crosses, or by circles round a 
cross. These dependent places, however, are often larger than^ 
the seat of Government, on which they depend. ]\Iigiaunrmh, 
for instance, is a place of great trade, and more populous than 
Patanago, on which it depends, although the latter is a pretty 
considerable town. 
The, most valuable part of this^ map should, no doubt, have 
been the distances given between various places ; but, unfortu- 
nately, on examination, I find, that very great mistakes must be 
here admitted. For, we mny observe, that from Amarapura to 
Paukkan (Pagalun Mew of Arrowsmith), the map gives 44 
leagues, or 96| British miles road distance, while Arrowsmith’^ 
niap gives 90 geographical miles direct distance, so that the 
computed distance on this part of the map falls short of the 
real measurement. In another route the computed league is 
evidently vastly longer, as between Migiaunraeli and Bamissen, 
this map makes only 27 leagues ; while the map by the native 
of Taunu makes the distance from the latter to Patanago, 
close to the former, six days’ journey, or 60 leagues. It is 
true, that in the latter map I have found the day’s journey on 
long routes to give only 17 geographical miles direct distance ; 
while, in the map now under consideration, tlie measured dis- 
tance between Amarapura and Paukkan gives nearly 21 geo- 
graphical miles. Even this allowance, however, would by no 
means reconcile the two accounts ; and some error in the dis- 
tance between Magiaunraeh and Ramisaen in this map, is evi- 
dent: for the route between Amarapura and Taunu being 
nearly parallel with the Erawadi, north from Prin or Pre, both 
running nearly north and south for a considerable way, the dis- 
tance from the towns on the Erawadi, such as Migiaunraeh, to 
the great inland road, in the direction of east and west, must 
be nearly the same with the distance between Ffe and Taunu, 
