{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 Cyrtoma a new genus of Fossil Echinida, Calcutta Journal of Nat. Hist. vol. i, p.155.
{183} Simia Hylobates agilis.
{186} Raised on posts.
{193} See Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol,—Feb. 1838.
{205a} Eastern Thibet.
{205b} For this and similar figures, see {212}
{205c} Barbus hexagonolepis, Asiatic Res. xix.—Pl. f. 3, pp.170, 313, 336.
{205d} Cyprinus Semiplotus As. Res. xix.—Pl. 37. f. 2, pp.274, 346.
{206a} Opsarius gracilus, As. Res. vol. xix.
{206b} See {35}
{212} Such figures may be thus read. Temp. of the air 60 degrees Fah., that of boiling water 204.5 degrees.
{217a} Relative heights.
{217b} These figures refer to Woollaston’s thermetrical barometer.
{221} Centropus nigrorufus.
{227} Oreinus progastus, As. Res. vol. xix. pl. 40, fig. 4.
{349} Referred to by the Author as an Anthemidioid, and on one occasion as Santonica achilleoidea.