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THAYETMYO

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 729 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THAYETMYO , a See also:

town and See also:district in the See also:Minbu See also:division of Upper See also:Burma. The town is situated on the right See also:bank of the See also:Irrawaddy, opposite Allanmyo. Pop. (1901) 15,824. The See also:cantonment contains the wing of a See also:British See also:battalion and a native See also:regiment. It enjoys a high reputation for healthiness. There is a See also:special See also:industry of See also:silver See also:work. The district has an See also:area of 4750 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 239,706, showing a decrease of 4 per cent. in the See also:decade. The See also:total rainfall in 1905 was 41.30 in. On the See also:west is the See also:Arakan Yoma range, and on the See also:east the See also:Pegu Yomas; and the See also:face of the See also:country, where it does not rise into mountains, is every-where broken by See also:low ranges of hills, many of which are barren and destitute of all vegetation. The greater See also:part of the district is wooded, and the Yomas east and west are covered with forests, now mostly preserved.

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chief See also:river is the Irrawaddy, which traverses Thayetmyo from See also:north to See also:south. The drainage finds its way to the Irrawaddy by three See also:main streams (the Pwon, Ma-htfln and Ma-de) on the west, and by two (the Kye-ni and Hput) on the east. Several See also:salt and hot springs occur in many localities; See also:petroleum is also found, and extensive See also:lime quarries exist a few See also:miles south of Thayetmyo. The See also:principal See also:wild animals are elephants, See also:rhinoceros, tigers, leopards, See also:black bears and wild hog. Silver pheasants and partridges are found in large See also:numbers, especially in the mountains. The chief products are See also:rice, See also:cotton, oil-seeds and See also:tobacco; See also:cutch is also very abundant, and the manufacture of the dye-stuff is carried on extensively. See also:Coal has been found in the district, and See also:earth oil-See also:wells exist, but neither coal nor oil has yet been extracted in any quantity. There are 403 sq. m. of reserved See also:forest. Three oil-wells were sunk in 1883 at Pedaukpin, but they were found unprofitable and abandoned. On the See also:annexation of Pegu by the British in 1852-53, Thayetmyo was formed into a subdivision of See also:Prome district; and in 1870 it was erected into a See also:separate See also:jurisdiction and placed under a See also:deputy-See also:commissioner. It was formerly in the Irrawaddy division of See also:Lower Burma, but was transferred to Upper Burma for administrative purposes in 1896.

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