erAjflB e r a -t a .
fey- land, in-which Iptiie account is given- efr'Latefi .oB T.aos.. Iii ther
language o f the country^ _M0A?.^Afignifies a town and the capital is
ftyled Mohang.Long hy the Ghinefe.1 If is o f confiderable extent, but.
only- inclofed with a palifafte: on the weft are larg'e-, forefts- and feveial
rivers. • This "city, ftarids on both fidxes o f a river- called Meinam Tai,.
which.by the Ghinefe aceouats-joins 'the river of Siam,-, fothat perhaps
the Anan is to the fouth of the capital; Fifh is rare, but buffalo and :
venifon are common in' the markets. About fi-ve days journey to the
north ' of Mohang Leog ate rningS Qf gpI<l, fi]vfer, an4 :copper • and >
ef rubies near the c ity : emerald% are. aifq found of great* fi?e, Tin-
red fulphur,. (perhaps cinnabar,) cotton-, tea, fapan - or brafil-wood, are.-
alfo exported^ Lao» was then tributary to A v a : . but the chief tradeJ
was with the Chinefe. Da Halde’s. account is not a little-confufed *.
and though he- give the names o f many-provinces and tdwns, it*wpuld
de impoffible to conftnwa a fketch of "a map from'his defcription." The
ehief river is. ftyled Meinam Kong, which afterwards* p.a^e>, through j
"Gambodia.— It would foemrtlng bifan§he§ ofithf fame, .riyterfipff tlrftlns,
guifhed by different: names. In Mr-. Dalrymple’s valuable map ofex-.
tenor India this- grand ftream ia palled- the Kiou f.ong, oe-M^ykauhg ;
apd Mr. Arrowfmith derives it from the Tibetian alps, where-it i^ftytecf-
the Satchou, and afterwards by D’Apyille the Lan-tfan JLiang j yyhicii
feems to identify it as implying the riyet of.Lantfang,, or keng* the cii-
pital of Laos.
C A M B O D TA .
T his country is alfo called Camboja and Camboge; and being:
partly maritime, »known by repeated defcriptions. Like, Siam, it is>
ketofed by mountains-o«. file esft and weft, and fertilized by a grand
S I A KÏ P’A.
kivet, the Maykaung or Makom, hear its eftuary, from fipre abfurd ca-
Orides calfed‘the Japdnefe^ riWf. In the 'qoinpilhtio'n' ;hy Wicqpeforc,
ftyfed the' voyage' ol’MAide-lfl^ i&rifeTardihkt thi^iriver begins fo inundate
the Country in. t$fif£Sp£ Near its: meuth it .is full of low i-fles-and*
fahdbaihks, f@ t h a f e i h e i s there is no port’ .^qr'1
'town. The country isAhinly people^ and th^kapifahcafted Cambodia;,
pel hapl' b^ecapfe" jwe- know noff'the native .terrri,' cqnfifts^Qiily of'one ^
ftreetj with a Angle temple. The mAft peculiar ‘p'rodtt £b is the Tub-.
ftan^Tftyjepvganibog|r,!-eri rather ,€^h|^e^gum, yielding a fine yellow'
tint* Avory'^alfo abounds^ with fev.eraTpre'cibus ^ Woods :r and fome add
"' The -country is fertile tix'xibi, and animakfeodA'* There are many-
Japanefe |^ettleys,‘with. .Ghinefe.,and Malays,,.WMm lift cafiffclSdely be-
’diftljigniftied from the natives, who are of a dark: yellow complexion,
withripng bjack hair..
’ lk'tinned'effary to enlarge on the old' anAtriviabaecouhts’' of thisr*
ebuntry. M.’Poiyre1 obferves that, hot fir frorh the capital, the traveller
fees with aftonlffiment the ruins'of an ahfcient city"Built with' ftorle;
the^rchitedfure fomeWhat refembliri^f the European," WhHbthe adjacent
lknds are marked with furrows of former' cultivation. ‘ Among the -
prefent pofle ffors of the country no tradition ekifts cbnceftfiiig this city-..
But French travellers are often fbfldofthahomantic ; and this informs-
ation remains to.be-confuted or confirmed.?6
S I A M P A .
T his* {mall maritime tradt is to the S. E. of Cambodia, from which;:
it feepas to be feparated bya ridge of mountains. Mr. Pennant^* informs -
* 7«- ! ■
* He telle, p. io j , a Cmflartak of a tiHck wall near-the capital vf-Codim-Caina^ * '
f^WIth'D’Anville he fpells the name Ciimpa. Staunton, i. 364, puts Tfiompa, and faysk*
appears frem the fea as a.fendy trait interfered with rocks, -