the Booree Dihing.

{115b} By the Karam and this other branch, on which old Beesa was
situated, all the water which formerly supplied the Noa Dihing now passes
into the Booree Dihing.

{116} Most of the Singphos subject to our control are located between
Kujoo Ghat and the Booree Dihing, as well as on the banks of this river
and in the valley of the Tenga Panee.

{117} The existence of Petroleum is of value as connected with the
solution of Caoutchouc.

{118} The affix Nam, signifies in the Shan language a river or stream.

{119a} The word _Kha_ is Singfo, and signifies a river.

{119b} Here Capt. Hannay and myself were met by Mr. Bayfield.

{119c} Khioung, or Kioung, signifies a small river in the Burmese
language.

{119d} Bhoom is the Singfo word for mountain.

{124a} Which we forded a few miles below Isilone; depth of the ford from
two to four feet.

{124b} In this direction the valley is nearly 65 miles in length.

{125} This river rises in a conspicuous range, well known by the name of
Shewe Down-gyee, or great golden mountain.

{126} This is certainly not the Ulukhor of Buch. Hamilton's statistics of
Dinajpoor.

{128} Probably from a species of Sterculia.

{129} The Toung-bein of the Burmese.

{130} Many of these hills are inhabited by Kukkeens, who do a great deal
of mischief, and whose annual depredations remain unchecked and
unpunished.

{132} Serpentine is occasionally found in the bed of the Nam-marsan.

{139} Especially on the right bank.

{145} It must be observed that Kamein is several miles out of the route
from the Mogoung river to Mogoung itself, we visited it en route to the
Serpentine mines.

{147} This is the site of the fossil bones discovered by Mr. Crawfurd.

{149} These brackets are shown in the text turned through 90 degrees. -
L. B.

{168} The Kullung rock is a most striking object from its artificial dome-
like appearance. It is composed of granite resting on an elevated
plateau of soft friable gneiss. This last in mouldering away, leaves
numerous rounded boulder-like masses of granite on the surface, which
from their hardness, resist the action of the atmosphere amidst the
surrounding decay of the softer rock.

{172} For original notice of the discovery of this raised beach, see
Journal of the Asiatic Society, September 1835, p.523; and an account of
the difference of level in Indian coal fields, vol. vii, 1838, p.65 of
the same work; also description of Cyrtom