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JOUltNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
“We did not leave the village until eight 
o’clock in the morning, delayed, as usual, in 
collecting porters to carry our luggage. In the 
early part of our journey we passed several 
villages, and at twelve entered the high-road 
leading to Amarapura. We passed under the 
walls of that town, having a large lake to our 
left. Proceeding towards the Irawadi, we went 
through the extensive suburbs of Amarapura, 
and soon reached the river. At two o’clock our 
party embarked in three small boats, and in an 
hour and a half reached Sagaing. 
“ That portion of the mountain which we as¬ 
cended lies due east from Sagaing, which was 
so distinctly visible from the top, that we found 
no difficulty in taking its bearings. The dis¬ 
tance, calculated to the place where we began 
to ascend, we computed at about twenty miles. 
The general direction of the whole range is 
nearly north and south. The thermometer, be¬ 
fore sunrise in the morning, stood at the lowest 
at 56°. At Sagaing, at the same hour, it stood 
at 67°. This makes a difference of eleven de¬ 
grees, which, allowing three hundred feet of 
elevation to each degree, will make the height 
of the hill, above the level of Sagaing, 3300 
feet. The thermometer, however, was observed 
at the village, which 1 estimated to be from 
