[12] Malcom, vol. i. p. 167.
[13] See Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. iv. p. 704. On the Further Discovery of Coalbeds in Assam, by Capt. F. Jenkins; also vol. viii. p. 385. The existence of coal has, however, been disputed.
[14] Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. ii. p. 75 sq.
[15] The viss is equal to 3½ pounds. The Burmese word is peik-tha.
[16] Japon, Indo-Chine, et Ceylan, par M. Dubois de Jancigny, p. 236.
[17] Crawfurd’s Ava, vol. ii. p. 222, to whom I am mainly indebted.
[18] Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, vol. iv. p. 499.
[19] Races of Man, p. 137. See his Ethnological map.
[20] Prichard, vol. iv. p. 506.
[21] Asiat. Res. vol. x. p. 240.