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dropped down the Irawadi for about half a mile, 
and entered the Myit-tha, a small stream, which 
carried us to the south-east angle of the town, 
where it joins the Myit-nge, or “ little river,” 
which last was now from one hundred and fifty 
to two hundred yards broad, and very deep. It 
is, in fact, according to Dr. Wallich, equal in 
size to the river Goomty in Hindostan. Its ori¬ 
gin is in the hills at no great distance. As far 
as the Myit-nge the current was against us; but 
after entering this, in our favour; so that, in re¬ 
ality, the two streams which I have named prov¬ 
ed to be only two branches of the same river. 
The larger branch, the Myit-nge, winds to the 
east, and afterwards to the north-west, until it 
joins the Irawadi immediately above the town. 
The peninsula formed by this bend has a canal 
across it, which commences a few hundred yards 
below the origin of the Myit-tha, and joins the 
little river about half a mile before its junction 
with the Irawadi. Over the Myit-tha there are 
two good substantial wooden-bridges, lately con¬ 
structed by the Queen’s brother. There had 
also been a bridge over the Myit-nge, but it 
was swept away by the floods of the periodical 
rains some years ago. 
On the western face of the town there is no 
suburb, and on the southern there are not many 
