present walled city of Pegu, to the west of the former town of Hanthawadie, and nearer the river. The power of this king was great. Ceylon paid him tribute and Siam sent princesses. He built the Maha-tsedee Pagoda, a huge pile of brick and laterite, about two miles to the west of Pegu, near the Karanee monastery. This, if completed, would have rivalled the Shwe Hmawdaw in size, but it appears never to have been finished, though the king dedicated 31 families from Twante in Dallah to its service. This is the first occasion on which the Dallah division of the present Rangoon district, which lies to the west of the Rangoon river, is mentioned by the chronicler. This part of the country appears to have been colonised by an independent race of Talaings, and not to have formed part of the original country of Hanthawadie. After the death of Nau-kya-bhooreng, in A. D. 1624, a "Koola Pathee kappeetan" (literally a western foreigner Musalman captain) ruled Pegu from Thanlyeng or Syriam. He, no doubt, was a Portuguese. The chronicle states "he was a heretic, and for 12 years searched for "Pagodas to destroy them. Religion perished in Ramangnya, and good works were no longer performed. The Htee and the Tshap"thwa-hpoo* of the Shwe Hmawdaw were pulled down and taken to Syriam. But the people of Hanthawadie, at the instigation of the "Rahans Telatseng and Engamoot, made a new Tshap-thwa-hpoo of "150 viss of gold of the Pagoda." When the Ava king heard of the conduct of the Kappeetan, he sent an army of 10,000 men under Meng-rai-kyaw-tswa against him; the Kappeetan fled, and was drowned when crossing the river to Dallah. The Ava king, whose name is not given, then ruled in Hanthawadie. He appears to have resided in Hanthawadie. The fifth king of this dynasty, Meng-rai-kyaw-goung, dedicated 190 families of Pada in Syriam, who had rebelled against his authority, to the service of the Shwe Hmawdaw, and assigned three villages for their support. The seventh king reigned in Ava, and made Hanthawadie over to a governor Guatha Oung, who oppressed the people and was killed in a rebellion. The next governor also was killed by a rebel named *The spike above the IItee, so called from its resemblance to the flower of the screw-pine. Tsheng-kya-sheng of Tharet-oke, who set himself up as king with the title of Boodha-kethee Tsheng-kya-sheng. In this king's reign, it is recorded the white foreigners appeared in Pegu. This king is said to have removed to Laboon in Zimmay, and to have been succeeded by Gui-khaing who was deposed by his minister Kanaikhaing, who was anointed king with the title of Bya-maingdee-razadie-patie. This king's son, Byeeaguyadalla, appears hardly to have commenced his reign when the Talaings were finally subjugated by the great Burman conquerer Aloung Bhoora--whose approach, the chronicler says, was heralded by a violent storm and earthquake, by which the upper part of the Shwe Hmawdaw was thrown down. After subduing the provinces of Dhaway (Tavoy), Byiet (Mergui), Tanengtharee (Tenasserim), Taraw Byat-bhic and Dwarawadee, Aloung Bhoora died on the 13th increase of Nayoon 1122 (A. D. 1760) at the village of Lawa-mye-byahma. With the seventh king of this dynasty, Bhadoon-meng, who ascended the throne A. D. 1771, the Thamaing of the Shwe Hmawdaw concludes. The Bhadoon-meng built a new capital, Amarapura, and was anointed in 1773, with the lengthy title of Theeree-pawara-wiezara-nandarathtarie-bhawana-tietya-tiepatie-pandita-maha-Dhamma-razadhieraza. In his reign the shwe Hmawdaw was repaired, and a new Htee made under the supervision of the Governor of Hanthawadie. Here ends. the chronicle of the Shwe Hmawdaw. Kings and Governors of Hanthawdie according to the Hmawdaw Thamaing. 11 Hattiraza or Byeenya-ran bhiethieta 878 864 1502 ... 1516 1 Tabengshwe-htee... Toungoo king. 923 1561 ... *If Pagnya-Oo reigned 35 years, Razadhicrit's accession will be 766 B. E. or 1404 A .D. On the Antiquities of Búgerhát.—By Bábu GOURDASS BYSACK, Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector, Manbhoom. [Received 29th March, 1867, Read 1st May, 1867.] The Delta of the Ganges offers few localities of interest to the antiquarian. An alluvial plain, intersected by a number of mighty and ever-shifting rivers, there is not a spot on it, which can arrest the attention of the traveller by ever so poor a display of the remains of human art of a former age; no hoary temple of the ancient Hindu rajas,—no majestic palace buried under the dust and vegetation of centuries, no baronial castle where the Aryan held revelry, when the Moslem had not yet set his feet on this land,-rewards the search of the inquirer. Nothing meets his eyes that proclaims of ancient civilization, and well may he question if ever any scion of the solar or the lunar race dwelt amid the people of Bengal. Even history does not afford many names of places in lower Bengal of truly ancient times. Ságar Island, it is true, was known some two thousand years ago, but not as a royal city or a flourishing port, but only as the abode of a hermit. Nuddea was the capital of the Sena Rájás when Bakhtiár Khiliji invaded this country, but the Bhagirathí has since so often shifted her course, and so completely washed away every vestige of the lofty halls and the proud battlements which owned the descendants of Adis'úra for their lords, that it is impossible now to determine its exact locale. Of other places in the Delta, the history is equally uncertain and unsatisfactory. But if we know not enough and have no relic of ancient Hindu cities in the Gangetic Delta, there are not wanting in it nooks and corners which, without pretending to any time-honored antiquity, may afford materials not altogether uninteresting. The little town of Bágerhát is one of them; and to a few remains of its former greatness I wish to draw the attention of the readers of the Journal, in the following pages. The town of Bágerhát is situated on the bank of the Bhairab, a sluggish stream, 50 miles, as the crow flies, to the south east of Jessore. According to the Revenue Survey maps, the latitude of the place is 22° 40' 10" N., longitude 89° 49' 50" E. When it was first founded, it is impossible now to tell, but it was a place of some note more than |