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:Mr,gura Village.--Head-quarters of the subdivision of the same
name in Jessore District, Bengal, situated in 230 WN. and 89".26' Eli
on the Nabagangâ river, where the Muchikhŕli Khal brings down to it
:the waters of the Kumar. Population (r9oT),',x,r48. It has vbrisk
!trade in .sugar and rice, and a number of sugar refineries. Large
numbers of reed mats are made here, and oil is manufactured from
mustard seed. Magura contains the usual public offices; the sub-jail
,has accommodation for,63 prisoners. It is protected from inundation
;by the Nabagangâ embankment.
Magwe District.=A dry zone District in the Minbu Division of
--Upper Burma, lying between r9° 39' and zo° 46' N. and 94° 48' and
'950'51' E., with an area of 2,913 square miles. It is bounded on the
north ~by Myingyan District; on the east by Meiktila and Yamethin
Districts; on the south by the Sinbaungwe township of Thayetmyo=
land `on the west. by the Irrawaddy river, which divides it from the
District of Minbu. The country is rolling in formation. Beginning
from the -alluvial belt bordering ,the Irrawaddy, it
Physical asDectp rises into a rugged and almost barren strip of land,
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cut up by ravines, which is succeeded farther east by
high-lying gently undulating plafin, about zo miles broad, which
stretches from north'Ao south through the District. 'Beyond this is
a second belt of sterile upland, which culminatas in the Pyinkadaw
bills in the north; and beyond this again lies the low fertile plain
forming the basin of the Yin stream, bordered on the east by the Pegtt
Vorna. The scenery is most picturesque in the region of the Yoma,
though the °yas on the slopes of the central plain and some of the
'stretches along the Yin are not without.a beauty of their own. Except
'in the rains, -however, the greater part of the District strikes the
observer as being 'desolate and arid:
'The Irrawaddy, whose' waters skirt the District on the"west, is its
chief waterway and- its~only navigable one. The Pin, rising on Popa,
in Myingyan, flows in a broad channel along the northern boundary 'of
the District, joining the Irrawaddy above the village of Yeriangyaung.
Three-quarters of the District, however-in 'fact, all but the, north-
western corner-lie in the basin of the Yin, which rises near Yindaw
in Yamethin District and runs through the `tail' of the Pegu Yom,
into the north-east of Magwe, 'turning south as it leaves the. hills.
-About 6o miles below this point it receives the waters of the Sadon,
Yabe, and Taungu, which drain the south-eastern. quarter of the
District: 'Here the river'turns westwards to join the Irrawaddy, into
which it empties itself after a course of about 120 miles, 8 miles below
'Magwe. The Taungdwingyi plain,' watered by the three affluents of
the Yin, extends for ''45 miles from north to south and is extremely
fertile. The Pin and Yin are subject to sudden and severe'floods and.
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