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THE VEGETATION OF THE DISTRICT OF 
20th March 1903 
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Myaung-u to Sidoktaya. 
at Sidoktaya. 
Sidoktaya to Kan. 
at Kan. 
Kan to Sidoktaya. 
Sidoktaya to Monmyin. 
Monmyin to Legain. 
Legain to inbu. 
at Minbu. 
Minbu to Rangoon, 
at Rangoon, 
at sea, 
arrived in Calcutta. 
The writer is glad to end this brief account of his tour by express- 
ing his obligations to Mr. Gaitskell, I.C.S., Director of Land Records 
and Agriculture, Burma; to Mr. Parsons, LC.S., who kindly presented 
the writer with a copy of the Settlement Report of the district of 
Minbu, written by Mr. Parsons himself, wherein the writer found 
information which otherwise he would not have obtained; to 
Mr. Parry, the Deputy Commissioner of Minbu; to Captain 
Fenton I. M. S., the writer’s host while in Minbu itself; and especially 
to Mr. Aubert, the Superintendent of Land Records, who rendered 
such excellent service on the tour itself. 
CHAPTER II. — TOPOGRAPHY OF THE DISTRICT. 
The district of Minbu is a rhomboidal shaped tract, bounded on 
the east by the river Irawaddy, on the west by the mountain range 
which separa'es the district from Arracan and is known as the Arracan 
Yomahs. The north and south boundaries are not naturally defined, 
but the district extends from about 19° 48' N. to about 21° N. measured 
along the 94 0 30' E. line of longitude, which practically forms one 
of the diagonals of the rhomboid, the other diagonal running from the 
intersection of 20° N. latitude with 95 0 E. longitude to the intersec- 
tion of 21 0 N. latitude with 94 0 E. longitude. 
The length of the district due north and south is about 80 miles, 
its greatest breadth 5 ° miles. The total area is over 3,000 square 
miles. The district is divided naturally into three meridional zones 
very distinct alike in their physical and vegetative characters. 
These are : — 
I.— A mountainous zone roughly forming the western third of the 
district and comprising the eastern flanks of the Arracan Yomahs and 
a very distinct narrow range of low hills running from north to south 
of the district closely parallel with and a few miles to the east of the 
