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Art. XV . — -Account of a Map constructed by a, Native of 
Taunu , of the country south from Ava. By Francis 
Hamilton, M. D. F. R. S. Lond. & Ed in., and F. A. S. L- 
& E. Communicated by the Author. 
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1 his Map (See Plate V.) may be considered as a portion or 
continuation of that published in the seventh Number of the 
Philosophical Journal, and differs from it in style chiefly, by 
the compiler having omitted the imitations of trees, which were 
mentioned to him as rather an encumbrance than an ornament. 
In order to judge of the scale which should be assumed for 
the distances marked days 1 journies and leagues (dain), we 
have the following data : 
From Rangoun City to Rangounkaen on the Erawadi, 
we have, days’ journies, 
2.0 
equal to G. miles 
30. 
From the latter to Pri, - 
5.5 . 
106 
From Pasein to Fri, - . 
8.2 
108 
From Rangoun to Old Aynwa or Ava, 
15.9 
295 
Days’ Journies, 
31.6; 
dain, 316 ; G. miles 
539 
That is to say, on routes of a considerable distance, the league 
or dain will give a little less than If geographical miles direct 
distance, and the day’s journey nearly 17 G. miles ; so that 
probably the road distance is not much short of what the dis- 
tances estimated in the Map will require, that is to say, £2 Bri- 
tish miles for each day’s journey. 
One of the most remarkable features of the country repre- 
sented in this Map is, that although it is far from level, consist- 
ing chiefly of swelling grounds, many of which contain rock ; 
and although in many places these rise even to hills disposed in 
ridges of considerable length, though of no great elevation, 
yet the rivers anastomose almost as much as in the low lands of 
Bengal, where there is not the slightest trace of rock, stone, or 
eminence. Indeed, near the Erawadi, the principal extent of a 
delta composed of alluvial mud, like that of the Ganges, 
reaches only from Rangoun to the mountains of Modaen or 
Negrais ; for the great temples of Shue Modo at Rangoun and 
of Kiaikkho at Sanlimn, (Sirian,) are on rocky eminences about 
110 G. miles from the western mountains. The base of the 
