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fectly regular, but it is necessary to know them. 
Colonel Wood, the officer who gave the name as 
it now stands in our maps, took the sounds as 
he heard them. I after an, or ng, is pronounced 
as d. After the name, the word river, or mil , 
would have been given to him by the natives. 
In this case the final n, or ng, of twang, is sound¬ 
ed as m ; and hence the name, as written down, 
abounds in errors. Another example is afforded 
in the Burman word for Chinese, just mention¬ 
ed, which is correctly written Tarut, but may be 
pronounced also Tarug, or Taruk, or Tarup, ac¬ 
cording to the consonant which follows it. In 
these cases consistency cannot be attained except 
by adhering to the original orthography of the 
words as written by the Burmans themselves, as 
far as this is practicable, through the use of Ro¬ 
man letters, and an approximation to it may be 
made in almost every case. The words Kyang- 
twang-mit imply the river that is within the 
country of the people called Kyang, this na¬ 
tion chiefly inhabiting its banks. This stream 
is also known by the name of the Thanlawati, 
or, perhaps more correctly, Sanlawati, if it be a 
Sanscrit name, which is likely. 
We were now in a flat country, the nearest 
ranges of hills, to the east, being at least thirty 
miles distant, and the Aracan mountains, to the 
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