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BASSEIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 492 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASSEIN , a See also:

district and See also:town in the See also:Irrawaddy See also:division of See also:Lower See also:Burma, in the See also:delta of the Irrawaddy. The district has been reduced to 4127 sq. m., from 8954 sq. m. in 1871, having given up a large See also:tract to the district of See also:Myaungmya formed in 1896. A See also:mountain range called the Anauk-pet Taungmyin stretches through the district from N. to S. along the See also:coast. The See also:principal See also:river of the district is the Irrawaddy, which debouches on the See also:sea at its eastern extremity through a delta intersected with See also:salt See also:water creeks, among which the Pyamalaw, Pyinzalu, Kyunton, and Ngawun Shagegyi or Bassein river See also:rank as important arms of the sea. Irrawaddy and Inyegyi are the only two lakes in the district. The delta of the Irrawaddy forms, wherever cultivable, a vast See also:sheet of See also:rice, with See also:cotton, sesamum, and See also:tobacco as subsidiary crops. In 1901 the See also:population was 391,427. BASSEIN, the See also:chief town and See also:port, is the See also:capital of the district and division, and is situated on the eastern See also:bank of the Bassein river, one of the See also:main See also:arteries by which the See also:waters of the Irrawaddy See also:discharge themselves into the sea. It forms an important seat of the rice See also:trade with several See also:steam rice See also:mills, and has See also:great capabilities both from a See also:mercantile and a military point of view, as it commands the great outlet of the Irrawaddy. It See also:fell before the See also:British arms, in May 1852, during the second Burmese See also:war. In 1901 it had a population of 31,864. The vessels of the Irrawaddy Flotilla See also:Company ply between See also:Rangoon and Bassein, &c., by inland waters, and a railway opened in 1903 runs See also:north- eastward through the centre of the district, to See also:Henzada and Letpadan.

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