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Indian Forest Records. 
[You. IV. 
PART IV. 
DETAILED REPORTS ON THE VARIOUS BAMBOO AREAS 
IN BURMA AND INDIA. 
POSSIBLE SITES FOR BAMBOO PAPER-PULP MILLS IN BURMA. 
Burma Area. No. I. (See portion marked A on map.) 
The Thonze Reserve of the Tharrawaddy Division. 
(1) Name and Situation. 
The forests with which this scheme is concerned are situated in the 
catchment area of the River Thonze, which drains a portion of the western 
slopes of the Pegu Yoma in the Tharrawaddy Division. This river 
finds its source in the main ridge of the Yomas and follows a winding 
course south-westwards, through the lower hills of the range until it 
emerges into the plains at Weywa. Thence it passes between deep 
banks to the village of Thonze, where it cuts the railway, and eventually 
six miles lower down flows into the Myitmaka at Sanywe. (See map.) 
This area, which has been chosen as a possible locality from which 
bamboos might be exploited to supply a pulp-mill, lies to the north of the 
Okkan Reserve of the Rangoon Division, which is dealt with here¬ 
after, and is a*continuation of those forests, though lying in a different 
catchment area. Again, to the north of this area, lies the Kadin Bilin 
reserve, drained by the Bilin River, and also a continuation of the same 
block of forest, which stretches northwards from the Okkan river along 
the western slopes of the Pegu Yoma for a distance of many hundreds 
of miles. 
(2) Description of the forests. 
The area is, for the most part, covered with dry deciduous teak, 
pyinkado and bamboo forests, with patches of evergreen in the moister 
localities, a large number of teak plantations near the western boundary 
and 8,000 acres of inferior forests, ceded to the Karens, in which to 
practise shifting cultivation. By far the greater portion of the area is 
fully stocked with bamboos of four or five different species, and only in 
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