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MENAM, or ME Nam (literally the " See also:mother See also:water or " See also:main See also:river "), a river of See also:Siam, the See also:chief See also:highway of the interior, on whose yearly rise and fall depends the See also:rice See also:crop of See also:Lower Siam. Rising in the Lao or Siamese Shan See also:state of Nan, at a height of 1400 ft. upon the shoulders of the See also:mountain See also:mass of Doi Luang, it is first known as the Nam Ngob, after a See also:village of that name. As the Nam Nan, still a mountain stream, it flows southward through the state so named between high forested ranges, and, notwithstanding the frequent rapids along its course, the natives use it in dug-outs for the transport of See also:hill produce. From Utaradit, where it leaves the hills of the Lao See also:country, it flows southward through the See also:plain of Lower Siam, and is navigable for See also:flat-bottomed native See also:craft of considerable capacity. It is here known as the Nam, or Menam Pichai. Below Pichai the river flows through See also:forest and swamp, the latter providing vast overflow basins for the yearly floods. Thousands of tons of See also:fish are caught and cured here during the fall of the river after the rains. Below Pitsunalok the See also:waters of the Menanr Yom, the historic river of Siam, upon which two of its See also:ancient capitals, Sawankalok and Sukotai, were situated, meander by more than one tortuous clayey channel to the main river, and combine to See also:form the Nam Po. At Paknam Po the main western tributary comes in, the shallow Me Ping, the river of Raheng and Chieng See also:Mai, bringing with it the waters of the Me Wang. As the chief See also:duty-station for See also:teak, which is floated in large quantities down all the upper branches of the river and as a See also:place of transshipment for boats, Paknam Po is. an important and growing See also:town. From this point southwards the river winds by many channels The See also:chronology in xv. 2, 23, 32, appears to confuse Pekah and Pekahiah, and the view has been held that they were originally one and the same; cf.

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Cheyne, Ency. Bib., See also:col. 3643.through the richest and most densely populated portion of Siam. About Chainat the Tachin branches off, forming the main western See also:branch of the Menam, and falling into the gulf at a point about 24 tn. See also:west of the See also:bar of the main or See also:Bangkok river. At See also:Ayuthia, another of the ancient capitals of Siam, the Nam Sak flows in from the See also:north-See also:east, an important stream affording communication with the See also:rich See also:tobacco See also:district of Pechabun, and draining the western slopes of the See also:Korat escarpment.

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