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JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY 
surrection had broke out immediately upon the 
departure of Sir A. Campbell from Rangoon, since 
which time several actions had been fought. In 
the evening we reached Renangyun, or the Petro¬ 
leum brook. 
Dec. 27.—Yesterday morning, after taking in 
wood, the steam-vessel dropped down, and about 
a mile below Renangyun took the ground. A 
party had landed early in the morning, and pro¬ 
ceeded some miles down the river, in expectation 
of joining the vessel. We were obliged to return, 
and did not reach her until three in the afternoon. 
This excursion, and another earlier in the morning, 
afforded us a highly interesting view of the geology 
of this part of the eastern bank of the river. The 
country consists of a series of sand-hills, the high¬ 
est of which do not exceed one hundred feet, 
frequently separated by narrow ravines, which, 
although torrents in the rainy season, were at pre¬ 
sent dry. The soil upon these hills was scanty in 
the extreme, and generally covered with grass, or 
an under-sized forest, in which the following trees 
are the most frequent:—Two species of Arbore¬ 
scent Accacias Celtes-Mollis; Rhus Paniculata, and 
Bignonia Auriculata of Wallieh; Baringtonia 
Acutangula; a few sacred fig-trees, but above all 
a species of Zizyphus , the same which is so uni¬ 
versal in the upper part of the Burman country. 
The Xrawadi had left bare a complete section 
