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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 1912, Vol. 10
Burma appears to have been as much of a blank page to the English in Rangoon as Western China - for we learn that the first detailed description of the Irrawaddy up to Mandalay was given by Lieu tenant Woods and Dr. Buchanan, of Symes Embassy, in Crawford's 1826 Embassy augmented this with second-hand in formation of the Upper Irrawaddy. But by this time the English had a firm footing in Bengal; and the country between Bengal and China, namely Assam and upper Burma, was about to be the scene of some careful and extensive exploration. In 1826 Messrs. Wilcox and Boulton went from Sadiya on the Brahmaputra in Assam across country to Mantchi in the valley of the Nam Lang, a tributary of the Irrawaddy. Here they were within 20 miles of the survey of the Jesuit Missionaries of Yiin-nan but could go no further. Pemberton travelled from Manipur to Ava overland, while Richard son reached Kendat in the Chindwin valley, where he joined Captain Grant, who had come over from Manipur.'m Captain Hannay, in and Dr. Bayfield. In 1836 explored the country up to the borders of Assam, Captain Hannay being the first Englishman to reach Bhamo since the removal of the East India Company's factory. His researches practically proved that the Tsan-po river of Tibet and the Irrawaddy were distinct. Although Mgr. De Mazure Vicaire Apostolique de Tibet believed that they were identical as late as In the same year Dr. Griffith, also starting from Sadiya, crossed the Patkoi range to the Mogoung river, descended this to the Irrawaddy and so reached the sea at Rangoon.
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