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IN THE BURUIIAN EMPIRE.
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sexes were passing and repassing along the banks,
to pay their devoirs at his obsequies.
January 20. The banks on both sides were
about thirty feet above the present level of
the river, and from them spreads an extensive
cultivated plain, level to a range of mountains
seven or eight miles inland on the east side, and
to the westward and northward as far as the visi-
ble horizon. Tbe soil at the surface is in general
a sandy loam, and in some places clayey. Num-
berless villages and hamlets with farm-yards sur-
rounded with stacks of paddy, buffaloes, horses,
and black cattle, recalled to our minds scenes of
European husbandry, and evince the industry and
plenty of the country. We stopped to breakfast
at the town of Cheynacoun, for several leagues
round which salt-pctre is extracted from the soil
in the usual manner.
January 24. We came opposite the centre of
the city of old Ava. Several pagodas still re-
main, but apparently few houses or inhabitants.
Since the seat of government has been removed,
it is said to have been deserted ; still the scattered
religious buildings that remain, extend about two
miles along the banks of the river, which are of a
moderate height and rocky. On the opposite or
northern shore stands the ancient city of Chegain,
whose scattered houses extend for three or four
miles along the bank; it is very populous, and
47
sexes were passing and repassing along the banks,
to pay their devoirs at his obsequies.
January 20. The banks on both sides were
about thirty feet above the present level of
the river, and from them spreads an extensive
cultivated plain, level to a range of mountains
seven or eight miles inland on the east side, and
to the westward and northward as far as the visi-
ble horizon. Tbe soil at the surface is in general
a sandy loam, and in some places clayey. Num-
berless villages and hamlets with farm-yards sur-
rounded with stacks of paddy, buffaloes, horses,
and black cattle, recalled to our minds scenes of
European husbandry, and evince the industry and
plenty of the country. We stopped to breakfast
at the town of Cheynacoun, for several leagues
round which salt-pctre is extracted from the soil
in the usual manner.
January 24. We came opposite the centre of
the city of old Ava. Several pagodas still re-
main, but apparently few houses or inhabitants.
Since the seat of government has been removed,
it is said to have been deserted ; still the scattered
religious buildings that remain, extend about two
miles along the banks of the river, which are of a
moderate height and rocky. On the opposite or
northern shore stands the ancient city of Chegain,
whose scattered houses extend for three or four
miles along the bank; it is very populous, and