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MOULMEIN (or MAULMEIN)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 935 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MOULMEIN (or MAULMEIN)

MOULMEIN (or MAULMEIN) , the See also:

PORT

port and headquarters of See also:

Amherst See also:

DISTRICT

district and See also:

TENASSERIM

Tenasserim See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of See also:

LOWER

Lower See also:

BURMA

Burma. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1901 was 58,346, and the increase in the last See also:

QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter of a See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century has been very slight. See also:

SHIP

Ship-See also:

BUILDING

building, which formerly was an important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, has now been given up, but there is still a considerable export of See also:

TEAK

teak and See also:

rice, and there are several See also:

steam rice-and saw-See also:

mills. The See also:

TOTAL

total exports See also:

AVERAGE

average more than a million See also:

sterling. Three steamers run weekly to See also:

RANGOON

Rangoon. See also:

Germany and See also:

SIAM (known to its inhabitants as Muang Thai)

Siam are represented by consuls; See also:

PERSIA

Persia, See also:

Denmark, and See also:

Norway and See also:

Sweden by See also:

VICE

vice-consuls; and See also:

Italy and the See also:

UNITED

United States of See also:

AMERICA

America by consular agents. The See also:

garrison of See also:

MADRAS

Madras native See also:

INFANTRY

infantry, formerly stationed in the See also:

TOWN

town, was withdrawn in 1898. The town, which has the See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of being on a See also:

RIVER

river, the See also:

SALWEEN

Salween, is really on the See also:

sea, with the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Bilugyun in front. It is one of the most picturesque ports in the See also:

East. There is a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

BANK

Bank of See also:

Bengal, and two See also:

NEWSPAPERS

newspapers are published—one in See also:

ENGLISH

English and one in Burmese.

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