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healthy locality throughout the year and is well suited to Europeans. 
It has the advantage of being on a good floating stream and also on the 
railway, some 50 miles from Rangoon. It is possible that, were a mill 
to be erected on a large scale, a better site would be further down the 
river, a few miles above Insein and near Rangoon, but such a point 
can only be settled by the firm or company intending to start the 
business. 
Burma Bamboo Area No. III. ( See 'portion marked C on map.) 
Pyinmana Division- 
(1) Name and Situation. 
The area from which bamboos can be extracted from the Pyinmana 
Division is a block of forests at the foot of, and on the eastern slopes of 
the Pegu Yomas, commencing some 10 to 15 miles east of the Rangoon- 
Mandalay Railway. The forests are of two types, the northern portion 
being in the dry zone and consisting of a poor quality Cutch forest, 
the central and southern portions being in the wet zone, and containing 
teak, pyinkado, and bamboos. It is with the latter type of forest that 
we are concerned. For the purpose of working out the timber from this 
area, it has been divided into nine blocks, of which four are drained by 
the Ngalaik and five by the Yonbin, both of these rivers finding their 
way into the Sittang, to the east and south-east of the town of 
Pyinmana. 
(2) Description of the forest. 
(7) The Ngalaik drainage. —The following blocks make up the catch¬ 
ment area of the Ngalaik :— 
(i) The Taungye Reserve is the most northern block, and is drained 
by a tributary of the Ngalaik, which bears the same name as 
that of the Reserve. The river in its upper reaches is a poor 
floating stream, so that the upper portions of the forest are 
excluded from this scheme, though bamboos cover nearly 
the whole area. 
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