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our information, I know no better means of at¬ 
taining an approximation to the truth. 
The towns of the Burman empire, but many of 
which, however, are little better than large vil¬ 
lages, amount, from the best information which 
I could obtain, to about thirty-two. Of the po¬ 
pulation of the seven following, a conjectural esti¬ 
mate has been formed as follows :— 
Ava, Amarapura, and Sagaing, with 
their suburbs and districts, . 354,200 
Rangoon, probably increased since its 
re-occupation to . . 12,000 
Prome .... 8,000 
Bassein .... 3,000 
Martaban . . . 1,500 
Of the remainder, the following are the names; 
viz. Moksobo, B’hamo, Nyaong-ran, Mone, Thing- 
nyi, Kyaong-taong, Debarain, Badong, Salen, or 
Thalen, Pagan, Baduain, Tongo, Kyaok-mo, 
Ramathain, Mait’hila, Sagu, L^gaing, Maindaong, 
Shwe-gyen, Patanago, Melun, Myad£, Kyaong- 
myo, and Sitaong. The following slender notices 
have been collected respecting a few of these :— 
Moksobo, commonly called by Europeans, Monch- 
abo, is distant from Ava twenty-six taings, or 
about fifty-two miles, in a north-west direction, 
and by a very tolerable carriage-road. It is a 
walled town, and still a place of considerable po¬ 
pulation and traffic. In the year of the Burman 
vulgar era, 1115, corresponding with the year of 
