fanciful names, the river widens and becomes tranquil. The whole of this
Kioukdweng is truly remarkable, and in many places very picturesque.

The vegetation is, I imagine, similar to that of the low hills about
Mogoung; but so dangerous was the passage, that I had but few
opportunities of going ashore. The hills are thinly wooded, and all bear
many impressions of former clearings; but the spots now under cultivation
are certainly few. Besides, we must bear in mind, that the spots
cultivated generally throughout thinly populated parts of India are
deserted after the first crop, so that a very limited population may
clear a great extent of ground. Bayfield tells me, and I consider his
authority as excellent, that the population is almost entirely limited to
the villages seen during the passage. These do not exceed twelve, and
they are all small. None of the hills exceed 500 feet in height
(apparently,) they do not present any very peculiar features.

Below the maximum high-water mark the vegetation is all stunted, at least
that of the rocks; a tufted Graminea is the most common. Adelia
nereifolia (Roxb.), a Celastrinea, a curious Rubiacea, which I also have
from Moulmain, two Myrtaceae, a Rungia, are the most common. I did not
observe Podocarpus. In the occasionally sandy spots Campanula, the usual
Compositae, Panica three. Eleusine, Clenopodium, and Atriplex are
common, a Stemodia, and Asclepiadea likewise occur. One Clematis
carpellis imberbibus, and the Lonicera are met with. No mosses appear to
occur. One remarkable tree, _Belhoe_ of Assam, 70 feet high, cortice
albido, foliis orbato, panculis (fructus) pendulis, occurs: it has the
appearance of an Amentaceous tree.

_April 27th_.--We have remained at Bamoo; nothing appears to have been
settled below, and the river is reported to be unsafe. It has fallen at
least three feet since our arrival. Bayfield measured the left channel
yesterday; it is nearly 750 yards wide.

Bamoo is situated on the left bank, along which its principal street
runs. The town is a very narrow one, the breadth averaging about 200
yards; its extent is considerable, but it scarcely contains 600 houses,
and of these 105 are Chinese, and only has one good street, _i.e_. as
to length. Neither are the houses at all good or large, so that the
population cannot be established at more than 3000. I allude only to
those within the stockade; out of this, and close to Bamoo are two or