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Ma, which joins it from the east, a little to the east of the town
of Hsipaw.
Myittha.----Southern subdivision and township of Kyaukse District,
Upper Burma, lying between 21° 12' and 21° 33' N. and 95° 57' and
96° 25' E., with an area of 277 square miles. The population was
43,645 in 1891, and 56,752 in rgoi, distributed in 310 villages. The
head-quarters are at Myittha (population, 3,023), on the railway 12
miles south of Kyaukse town. The railway runs north and south
through the centre of the township, the portion to the east, drained
by the Panlaung river, being a flat plain bounded by the Shan plateau,
with a scanty rainfall, but a good supply of irrigation canals; while
the western portion, once the Dayegaung township, is watered by the
Samon river and the Sama canal. In 1903-4 the township con-
tained 104 square miles under cultivation, of which 75 square miles
were irrigated, and the land revenue and thathameda amounted to
Rs. 3, 24, 000.
Mylliem (Mulliem).---Petty State in the Kllasi Hills, Eastern Bengal
and Assam, in the immediate vicinity of Shillong. 'F'he population
in 1901 was 17,863, and the gross revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 9,6r9.
The principal products are rice, potatoes, maize, and millet. The
manufactures are iron hoes and baskets. There are deposits of iron
in the State, but they are not worked.
Mymensingh District (Mainaansingh)_-District in the north of
the Dacca Division, Eastern Bengal and Assam, lying between 23° 57'
and 25° 26' N. and 89° 36' and 91° 16' E., with an area of 6,332
square miles. It derives its name from the old pargana or fiscal
division of Mainlansingh. On the north and east the District marches
with Assam, being bounded on the north by the Garo Hills, and
on the east by Sylhet ; on the south-east it adjoins Tippera, and on
the south Dacca ; on the west it is separated by the Jamuna (or
Brahmaputra) from the Districts of Pabna, Bogra, and Rangpur.
Until the beginning of the nineteenth century the main stream
of the Brahmaputra flowed through the middle of the District from
north to south ; and although it now passes along
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aspects. the western boundary and the Old Brahmaputra has
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shrunk to a here fraction of its former volume, its
channel cuts the District into two great natural divisions with a marked
difference between the country on either bank. The people to the east
of it resemble in their dialect, social customs, and observances those of
the adjoining District of Sylhet, while those to the west are like the
inhabitants of Pabna, Dacca, and I+aridpur. To the east the country
is intersected by marshes or haors, where large herds of buffaloes
are grazed in the cold season, and the whole country is submerged
during the rains, except the crowded village sites which are artificially
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