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under a number of different names but it runs more or less along 

 meridian of 94°20'. It is covered with dense forest. 



Tilin, Long. 94°8', Lat. 2(T13', height about J, 500 feet. A large 

 village at the foot of the Chin Hills on the right bank of the Maw 

 River. The cart-road to Gangaw from Pakokku passes through 

 the village. Outside the cultivation the country is covered with dense 

 jungle. 



Man, Long. 94°17', Lat. 2l°l8', height about 1,500 feet. A small 

 village on the Pauk-Pasok cart-road, situated to the west of the first high 

 range met with while going west from the Irrawaddy. The village is 

 surrounded by dense jungle outside the small patch of cultivation. 



Pontaimg, Long. 94°18', Lat. 21°20', height 1,900 feet. The 

 first high range met with while going west from the Irrawaddy ; 

 on the lower slopes the forest is principally bamboo, which gradually 

 changes into timber trees (teak, etc.), as the range rises in height. 



Laungshe, Long. 94°10', Lat. 21°0', height about 1,000 feet. A 

 large village situated at the foot of the Chin Hills just where the Salin 

 River breaks through. A good deal of rice is cultivated in the valley 

 and it was on the cultivation that most of the birds were shot here. 



Kanpetlet, Long. 94°0', Lat. 2F14', height 7,000 feet. At 

 this place on the slopes of Mount Victoria the headquarters of the 

 Pakokku Chin Hills are being built. It at present consists of two or 

 three houses, while barracks for about 60 sepoys are being built. 

 Mount Victoria, the summit of which is 10,300 feet, is the highest hill in 

 Burmah and is the culminating point of the high rauge which runs 

 from Manipur southwards more or less along the meridian of 94°. A 

 long spur emanates from the summit running in an easterly direction, 

 and it is on this spur that Kanpetlet is situated. In the valleys the 

 forest is very dense, while on the spurs there are large open spots 

 covered with grass alternating with tracts of fairly open fir forest. 

 Birds labelled Mount Victoria were shot on the way up to Kanpetlet 

 from Saw, the village at the foot of the spur. 



Dudawtaung, Long. 94°18', Lat. 21°5', height about 2,000 feet. 

 A range of hills about 2,000 feet high running north and south, the 

 first high one that is met while marching west from the Irrawaddy 

 River. It is covered with fairly dense forest. 



Yinkwetaung, Long. 93°58', Lat. 20°44', height 5,500 feet. The 

 local name of one of the spurs which run eastward from the high range 

 which forma the boundary betweeu Pakokku district and the Chin 

 Hills. Near the summit the spurs are bare of trees and covered with 

 grass. In the valleys and on spurs below about 5,000 feet there is dense 

 jungle. 



