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inaccessible to Urge vessels, most of the local trade ha* been diverted 

 to llzmjjuti. and Khice it* captur..- :tud d'-trm-lion hy Aluiupru in the 

 la«it century, this uncivil t capital of the Talaings lias sunk to the 

 position of an obscure inland town. Its former importance, how- 

 ever, is attested by the fsicl that from it the whole of Lower Buruiah 

 take- ihi- name of IVgu, 



Ararat, 



Physical Feature*. — The westernmost and second in import* 

 uiu f «>f the three divisions of l"nu:-U ISm-muli, Ai-Lk;ui isHL^titiH*^ 

 a clearlywlelined geographical region confined east and west by the 

 Arnkan Yomn range and the sea, and stretching frotn the Chittagong 

 division of Lower Bengal sinithwaTrls to the watery plains of the 

 Irawaddy delta. It thu* farms a long narrow maritime stone, skirt- 

 ing the east side of the Buy of Bengal for 85b miles, from Cape 

 Elephant} 21* 10' N. laL, just above the Haf estuary, to Pagoda Point 

 below Cape Ncgrais, 16 5 2" N. lot. In the north the Arnkan Yoma 

 range, separating it from Burmah, is distant from 80 to S)Q mi lea 

 from the coast, towards which it gradually approaches southward*, 

 while di mini filing from 0000 to 7000 feet in height in the same 

 direction, until it merges at last in the Irawaddy delta, within 13 or 

 14 mile* of Cape Xegrabt Total nrea rather over 19,000 square, mile*; 



Towards the centre the coast is fringed by a large number of 

 islands, islets, and reefs?, of which (he largest are the volcanic Ramri 

 and Cheduba. In the north also the seaboard is indented by several 

 inlets forming the estuaries of the Myo, Naf, Koladyne, Lemrn 

 (Leniyu), and other Rtreams, flowing in a southerly direction from 

 the Arakuu Yonm, and converging in a network of channels and low 

 island", through whb-h Die rhii-f brain.'h Teaches the f*ea under the 

 name of the Arnkan river in 20* 5' X, lat. Vessels of considerable 

 >~vs.<- .n-vm] ihe K<i]:idyTn', Myn, and Lenini for 30 or 40 miles, but 

 the other cojist streams are accessible only to the native crafL 



Physically speaking Arukan constitutes little more than the 

 wcek-m dope of the coast rouge, which forms iln- waler-parlin^ 

 between the rivers flowing east to the Irawaddy basin, and west or 

 south-west to the Bay of Bengal. This Mope is much broken, 

 -especially in the north, by parallel terraces and deep river gorges 

 densely clothed with magnificent forests of teak and other valuable 

 timbers. Near thu son the *>il U windy, but about the Koladyne and 

 Lemru estuaries the surface is occupied with extensive tracts of 

 extremely fertile alluvial lands. In the inlerior also the argillaceous 



