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claim to any lands where the range of mountains may be 
ill-defined, or may not be admitted as the line of demarca¬ 
tion described in the Treaty, you will endeavour to ascer¬ 
tain, as correctly as possible, their position and extent, and 
report the circumstances for the consideration of his Lord- 
ship in Council, and the matter will remain for final adjust¬ 
ment by commissioners, as provided for in the Treaty. 
The Governor-General in Council deems it proper, in this 
place, to advert to your dispatch on the subject of the 
Island of Negrais, which you conceive would form a very 
desirable acquisition to us at the mouth of the JBassein 
river. The subject is one deserving of consideration, and 
should not be lost sight of in the event of any future ex¬ 
change of territory ; but you will be careful not to origi¬ 
nate at the present time any propositions for farther cessions 
of territory, though you may receive any offers on their 
part for mutual exchanges. 
9.—On the side of Martaban you appear to contemplate 
the probability of discussion with the Court of Ava, whose 
feelings, in respect to their loss of territory in that quarter, 
will, you apprehend, be aggravated by the emigration of 
its subjects. His Lordship in Council is fully sensible of 
the extreme difficulty which the British Commissioners ex¬ 
perienced in settling the boundaries in that quarter, with 
the defective information which they then possessed. The 
proceedings of the Commissioners relative to the conference 
held with the Plenipotentiaries of the King of Ava on the 
subject of the fourth article of the Treaty are also imper¬ 
fect, and do not show whether the Saluen river was agreed 
to as the line of demarcation, after the maps therein referred 
to had been inspected by the Bur man Agents, though it 
may be presumed that this was the case. This subject will 
be more fully adverted to in a separate letter respecting 
Martaban: but I am directed to observe, in this place, that 
