constructed by a Native of Taunu. 79 
square G. miles, or between 36,000 and 37,000 B. miles, or ra- 
ther more than Ireland. 
Besides the places, the situations of which have been ascertain- 
ed by Mr Wood’s survey, the most important geographical sta- 
tion in this part of the country is Taunu. According to this 
map, one of our best authorities, the whole distance between 
Rangoun and Old Ava is 158 leagues (dain), and of these, the 
distance between llangoun and Tanu, being 63, we may calcu- 
late this to be/yy of ^60 G. miles, the total direct distance in 
the map of Asia between llangoun and Ava. By this we shall 
have Taunu 116 G. miles from llangoun, and it is five days’ 
journey, or 85 G. miles, from Prin. According to this, Taunu 
should lie in about 13° 15' N. Lat. and 96° 43' Long. East 
from Greenwich, very near where Mr Arrowsmith has placed 
it. This being a most important station, I shall here consider 
its situation from another authority. According to this, the whole 
distance between Rangoon and Amarapura, being 170 leagues 
or dain, 100 of these are between Amarapura and Taunu. 
Now, the former distance being 316 G. miles, the latter will be 
186 G. miles, coinciding exactly with the map of Asia, which I 
therefore think must be nearly right; and the compiler of the 
Universal History, most justly, therefore, suspected Pinto of 
exaggeration, when he stated it to be 160 leagues from Pegu. 
Although in the Universal History we read frequently of the 
Kingdom of Taunu, (or Tangu as it is there called,) and of its 
kings, who governed in the end of the 16th and beginning of the 
17th centuries of the Christian era, there is no reason to suppose 
but that it was always a part of the Mranma territory, and its 
Princes mere vicegerents of the Mranma Sovereigns, whether 
these resided at Ava or Pegu. The Portuguese have, indeed, 
been in the habit of bestowing the title of King on even the 
Mrowuns or Governors of the Provinces, retained for the imme- 
diate support of the King’s own expense, or his proper domain, 
such as Pegu was when I was in the country ; and they would 
have been still more justifiable in giving the title of King to any 
prince of the royal family, who might hold as an appanage, for 
his support, a province such as Taunu, although the Sovereign 
retained complete authority in every matter, allotting merely 
the revenue to the prince for his support. Such was the state in 
