MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Bangkok , Siam , March 1848. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN ARGHZPKLAGO, &C,, 
Dear Sir, 
My absence from this country for two and a half years is the on¬ 
ly reason why your kindness in sending me several numbers of your 
Journal has not been previously acknowledged. I have little leisure 
to read or write on such topics as fill your work, yet they are mat¬ 
ters of great interest to me—and, so far as they fall within the small 
circle of my information, and my leisure will permit, I desire both 
to read and write. But as I can write very little, I have thought I 
might be most serviceable in that little by correcting a few errors 
into which others have fallen, either from inadvertence or want of 
the means of accurate information. 
That by this means I may draw upon myself the character of a 
faultfinder is probable, but if the public is benefitted thereby,—let 
that pass. 
My first remark pertains to the boundaries of Cochin China on 
the west as given by Dr' Le Fevre (ante Vo!. I p. 52, 53, &c.,) 
Those various statements would seem to imply that a great part of 
ancient Kambuja was swallowed up in Cochin China. It is true that 
a poition of it is in the possession of the Cochin Chinese, and they 
have till recently claimed most of it, but the claim has never been 
allowed by the Siamese. The city called by Dr L. Colompe , by the 
Kdmbujdns and Siamese Pen-nom-pen, is said to be in Lower Cochin 
China, but even Dr. L. alluws that the Kambujans have retaken it. 
The fact is the Kambujans are no longer a distinct and independent 
nation, the eastern part of their territory having been subjugated by 
the Cochin Chinese and the western fully taken possession of by the 
Siamese, and the latter, with the co-operation of the Kambujans 
under their rule, have retaken Pen-nom-pen, and held the occupancy 
Vol. III. No , VII, July, 1848, 
