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Art. IX . — Account of two Maps qfZdennfa, or Yangoma. By 
Francis Hamilton, M. D. & F. R. S. & F. A. S. Lond. & 
Edin. With a Plate. Communicated by the Author. 
In the English translation of M. Malte Brim’s System of Geo- 
graphy (vol. iii. p. S6S.), this compiler is made to say, ‘‘We 
are totally unable to fix the locality of the kingdom of Yango- 
ma. D’Anville’s map places Yangoma near the sources of the 
western branch of the Meinam, or river of Siam. In other mo- 
dern maps, it is left out as too uncertain to be admitted.” Cer- 
tainly, if we imagine Yangoma to be such a country as M. Malte 
Brun describes it, we shall no where find such to exist ; but, as 
I have already mentioned (Philosophical Journal, vol. ii. p. 268.), 
there can be no doubt, that the Jangomasof the Universal His- 
tory (London, 8vo. 1759, vol. vii. p. 135, 137.) are the same 
people with the Jun or Yun Shan of the Mranmas, and that their 
capital is the Zaenmse of the Mranmas, or Chiamay of Loubere, 
which, in Mr Arrowsmith’s map of Asia, is called Zemee. 
Soon after I had received the general map, of which I have 
given an account in the 2d volume of this Journal (p. 89, 262.), 
the same person who composed it gave me the first of the ac- 
companying maps (See Plate III.) ; and as this contained no dis- 
tances, he, at my request, made out the second map, in which 
these are given ; and the manner of delineating^ the country is 
altered. In the first map, the river Saluaen, forming the west- 
ern boundary, is represented by a line drawn straight by a rule ; 
and the other rivers are made of an enormous width. In the 
second map, the manner of delineation is more accordant to Eu- 
ropean ideas, In the first map, the hills are represented in a kind 
of rude perspective, when, of course, they appear as ridges ; but, 
in the second, the spaces occupied by mountains are surrounded 
by a line, as lakes are denoted in our maps. I am not sure but that 
this is a more accurate method than what has been adopted by 
many more scientific geographers ; and, if it had been followed, 
many of what are called cliains and ridges of mountains, would 
disappear from our maps ; for I suspect, that such have some- 
times originated from early attempts to delineate them in a kind 
o£ perspective, as in the first map of the slave. Thus, imaginary 
