A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDAH ANNALS, 1/ 
each face. The wall, which seemed to have been formed by two 
brick walls inclosing earth, was in a very ruinous condition. Its 
breadth or thickness was 34 feet, and its height 12 feet. The 
ditch, which is fourteen paces from the base of the wall, was then 
in a tolerable state of repair—which could hardly have been ex¬ 
pected from its age. It was yet lined with the original bricks, 
and contained a supply of water. 
A rough causeway of bricks set on their edges led in a straight 
line from the gate alluded to, up to the S. front of the great temple 
of Shui Madu. Pushing forward we reached the village, and, shortly 
after, tin's once proud fane of Buddha. The people, priests included, 
had fled, and in such haste that they left most of their property 
behind them. But as the troops were kept outside of the walls, 
nothing was touched. On entering the monastery, chests full of 
Butman books attracted my attention, but however seductive to an 
M S. hunter, they were left to their owners—for we were not 
warring against Peguers or their spiritual teachers. 
The height and aspect of the Pagoda have been well described 
by Symes and others. It has lost all the griding which formerly 
profusely covered it, and has now a pleasingly venerable appear¬ 
ance, while the great Shui Dagaung Temple at Rangoon looks like 
a gaudy pageant of the passing hour, although really a splendid 
building of its kind. The troops speedily embarked and reached 
Rangoon to join in its defence against the Bandoola’s or Burmese 
Generafs army of 20,000 men, and afterwards in defeating it in 
three consecutive battles at the flanks and centre of their extended 
lines. Close to the Dagoba I observed a marble slab with an 
inscription on it couched in the inflated terms used by Indian 
Princes of the conquests of Alougphra or Alompra, the subduer of 
the Peguans. He lazed Pegu in A. D. 1757. 
In the time of Hamilton A. D, 1709, this capital was in ruins. 
Put there could not have been many substantial buildings within 
the area of the walls or there would have been ruins of them 
visible. I greatly suspect that the houses were of wood and frailer 
materials, as Rangoon houses are at this day, and that the brick 
warehouses, which were in the old town beyond the walls, were 
merely small fire safes. 
Thhruse { T ) was, according to Ariati, the most remote maritime 
region towaids the east that was known in his time. In all pro¬ 
bability it comprehended not only Arracan, but likewise the 
country designated by Ptolemy the golden Chersonese “ which is 
now generally admitted to be Pegu.” 
Mr Crawfurd states that the oldest temples at Pug an were of a 
date from 846 to 864 A, D ( 2 ) The king then reigning was Pyan 
ByiL If Pugan was founded so early as A. D. 107, as here also 
stated, and the Buddhist religion was introduced into Ava so 
( T ) J. A. S. B. for January 1847 p. 27. 
( 3 ) Journ. Emb. to Ava p. p. 62 - 63 . 
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