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Indian Forest Records. 
[Vol. IV. 
(12) Chemicals. 
No lime is available in the vicinity of Thonze, so that it would have 
to be procured from Rangoon, where the price is about 5 annas per cubic 
foot. Excellent lime is also available in large quantities from Moulmein. 
All the other chemicals necessary would have to be imported to 
Rangoon by sea, and taken up the Rangoon river to the factory site. 
(13) Miscellaneous facts. 
The proposed factory site is situated in the plains and is surrounded 
by cultivation, chiefly rice. It is not an unhealthy spot, is well situated 
on a fair river and close to the railway. It is just possible that a more 
satisfactory site could be found lower down the river, nearer Rangoon 
and somewhere above tidal level. The forests are not unhealthy, except 
after the monsoon, when fever is prevalent. 
Burma Area No. II. (See portions marked B on map.) 
The Hlaing Yoma and Okkan Reserves of the Rangoon Division. 
(1) Name and Situation. 
These forests lie in the Rangoon Division and are known as the 
Okkan and Hlaing Yoma Reserves. They are situated on the 
western slopes of the southern extremity of the Pegu Yoma and 
therefore lie to the east of the Irrawaddy river. In this locality the Pegu 
Yoma forms a range of broken hills rising to 800 feet with consider¬ 
ably higher points along the main ridge. They are drained by 
numerous small streams which find their way into the larger feeders of 
the Hlaing, the most important of which is the Okkan river, which flows 
through the central and northern portion of the area. (See map.) 
(2) Description of the forests. 
To the east of Palon Railway Station occur what are known as the 
Plains Forests, in which extensive teak plantations exist, and in which 
comparatively few bamboos occur. About 8 miles east of the railway 
commences the broken hilly ground of the Yomas covered with 
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