Ii4t Dr Hamilton 07i a Ma'p oftlie Country 
reckoned the uppermost Mranma town on that bank of the 
Erawadi ; for, although the Ambassador's map places this 
town on the left, both the slave in the general map, and the 
native of Taunu, agree to place it on the right. This differ- 
ence, however, is not an error in either party, as I understood 
that the town is really on the right ; but the customhouse, 
which is most frequented by travellers passing on the river, 
stands on the left bank. Indeed even lower down I had oc- 
casion to observe, that notwithstanding the great size of the 
Erawadi, part of one town stood on each side of this noble ri- 
ver. Unfortunately, for reasons formerly mentioned (N° III.), 
I did not obtain the names of the six towns between Zabbseh- 
nago and Bhanmo in the general map of the slave; but as the 
same number exactly occurs in the Ambassador's route (1S° V.), 
we may conclude that the same towns are meant, and therefore 
that the first ShanWa town on this route is Kiangnap, although 
it is on the west side of this mountainous tract, which the slave 
states as the boundary between the Mranma and Shan nations ; 
but theii he makes the mountains descend to the Erawadi at 
Zabbaehnago. The accompanying map, however, seems here 
more correct than the general one drawn by the slave, and re- 
presents the hills east from Amarapura, not as a narrow ridge, 
separating the two nations, but as a mountainous region, among 
which are many valleys occupied by the Mrelap Shan, who at 
Kiangnap extend to the Erawadi at or near the termination of 
the hilly region. 
Between the capital and Kiangnap, in the accompanying 
map, is laid down a small river, not noticed in either of the two 
authorities already published. It descends from the mountain- 
ous region of the Shanwas, and falls into the Erawadi, passing 
on the north side of the city called Maddara. East from this 
‘ town and the present capital, and near the hills, is an artificial 
pond (kan) of great extent, and called Aunbsenlse, or the pond 
of Nelumbium, the figures in the map being drawn in imitation 
of the leaves of this splendid vegetable. 
At the old city of Ava, or more properly Aenwa, the Era- 
wadi receives another stream called Mringnggeh, or the Little 
River, in contradistinction to the Erawadi or Great River. Va- 
' rious canals between the twp surround the city, Avhich is most 
