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almost uniformly prevail upon this coast from 
November to April, we stood across for the mouth 
of the Martaban river. Going at a very moderate 
rate, we entered the new harbour of Amherst at 
half-past eleven o’clock this forenoon, or exactly 
in twenty-four hours from our quitting Rangoon: 
the distance is about one hundred miles. Here 
we found lying the Government Surveying-ship 
Investigator, with Captain Ross the Surveyor- 
general, and the cruizer Ternate. We landed in 
the evening, and found the place greatly altered 
from what it had been when established as a Bri¬ 
tish settlement in the beginning of the preceding 
April. There was then not a house or an inhabit¬ 
ant ; and the houses, or rather huts, now amount¬ 
ed to two hundred and thirty, with a population 
of not less than twelve hundred inhabitants. 
Jan. 25 .—Immediately upon our reaching the 
place yesterday, I sent Lieutenant Montmorency 
up to Sir A. Campbell, to inform him of our arri¬ 
val; giving him, in charge, for the General’s peru¬ 
sal, a copy of my dispatch to Government and of 
my Journal. We ascended ourselves, this morn¬ 
ing, in the steam-vessel to Maulamyaing, in order 
that I might have an opportunity of communi¬ 
cating personally with Sir A. Campbell on the 
subject of the Mission. With the advantage of 
the flood-tide we reached it in three hours and a 
half, although detained nearly half an hour by 
getting on a sand-bank. The distance from Am- 
