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SIAM. 309
The river on which the town of Ponthiamas is
seated, communicates, in the season of inundation,
with the Meikong, by which means commodities are
brought to this mouth, instead of the Cambodia branch,
which is said to be of very troublesome navigation,
from the number of low islands and sand banks which
obstruct the channel.*
The valley of Cambodia is the last of those vast
longitudinal basins into which this region is divided,
and here we enter on the confines of the Anami tic
empire.
* Probably, the Bassak is referred to. See p. 333, note.
END OF SIAM.