80 Dr Hamilton a Map of the country 
All the three authorities mentioned above, the native of Tau- 
nu, the slave, and the Ambassador, agree, however^ in making 
two rivers join this part of the Erawadi from the right. In the 
accompanying map, and that of the Ambassador, ( Edin. Phil, 
Journ. No. V.) the lower one is called Msezha, while in that of 
the slave it is called Shue Li ; but this name is transferred by 
the accompanying map to the upper of the two, which in the 
Ambassador‘’s map is called the Kokuse, and in the slave’s the 
Maezha. Here I must give the preference to the Ambassador’s 
authority ; and I am inclined to think, from verbal information 
which I received, that there is no Shue Li entering the Erawadi 
on die right, but that the river, the two branches of which are 
often called Maezha and Kokuas, is often called the Shue Lein 
or Gold-dust river, from its sand containing that substance. It 
must, indeed, be observed, that in the accompanying map, there 
is an appearance of these two rivers being branches from the 
same source, — a circumstance adopted by Mr Dalrymple, and 
not improbable. They seem to run through a very mountain- 
ous country, without any place of consequence on their banks, 
Maezha being only a village (Rua). They seem to spring from 
the east side of a chain of hills, which, rising opposite to old 
Ava, and producing there white statuary marble, of the finest 
quality, run nearly north for a long way, at first near the Era- 
wadi, but afterwards more remote from its right bank, separat- 
ing the countries of the Kasi Shan and Shanwa or Mrelap Shan, 
at least according to the division that was esfablished when I 
was in the country ; but nothing can be more liable to cliange 
than the divisions of territory under such a government. 
The Kasi Shan 1 consider as those in Asam called Nora. 
They are governed by a collateral branch of the Asam Rajas, 
and occupy the upper parts of the Khiaendusen, between^ the 
proper country of the Mranmas on the south, and Asam on the 
north, and between Kasi on the west, and the Mrelap Shan on 
the east. At Amarapura, I saw several of this people, who 
spoke a dialect that I could not distinguish from that of Siam. 
They called themselves Tailung ; by the Kasi of Manipur they 
are called Moitay Kabo, to distinguish them from the Mrelap 
Shan, wliom the Moitay or Kasi of Manipur call Awakabo. 
Some of them with whom I conversed, alleged that the Erawadi 
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