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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 908 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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YATSAUK , called by the See also:

SHANS

Shans LAWKSAWK, a See also:

state in the central See also:

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

division of the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern Shan States of See also:

BURMA

Burma. See also:

AREA

Area, 2197 sq. m. Pop. (1901), 24,839, of whom less than one-See also:

HALF

half are Shans; See also:

revenue, £2000. The crops grown are See also:

rice, segamum, See also:

cotton, ground-nuts and oranges. As a whole the state is mountainous, with ranges See also:

RUNNING

running N. and S. The See also:

main range has a See also:

general height of 5000 ft., with peaks, such as Loi Sampa, rising to 7846 ft. The See also:

MIDDLE

middle and S., however, consist of open See also:

ROLLING

rolling See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, with an See also:

AVERAGE

average height of 3500 ft. To the N. the country falls away to the Nam Tu (Myitnge), where there are See also:

FINE

fine See also:

TEAK

teak forests, as well as along the Nam See also:

Lang and Nam Et, which with the Zawgyi See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

rivers of the state. Most of them disappear underground at intervals, which makes the extraction of See also:

TIMBER

timber impossible except for See also:

LOCAL

local use. Lawksawk, the See also:

capital, stands on the N. See also:

BANK

bank of the Zawgyi, near a small weedy See also:

lake. The old See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick walls and the See also:

MOAT

moat are falling into decay.

The chief at the See also:

time of See also:

ANNEXATION (Lat. ad, to, and nexus, joining)

annexation had been at See also:

war with the Burmese, but refused to submit to the See also:

BRITISH

British, and fled to Keng Hung, where he died some years afterwards. The sawbwa chosen in 1887 belonged to another Shan ruling See also:

house. He died in 1900, and was succeeded by his son.

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