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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 18, p. 416.

416 NA TMA UK' river, while over the rest of the township the chief crops are millet and sesamum. The population was 42,611 in 18gi, and 53,262 in 19or, distributed in r8r villages. The head-quarters are at Natmauk (popula- tion, 530), on the Yin river, 36 miles north-east of Magwe, with which it is connected by a good road. In 1903-4 the area cultivated was 167 square miles, and the land revenue and thathameda amounted to Rs.82,000. Natogyi.-North-eastern township of Myingyan District, Upper Burma, lying between 21' Wand 21° 4o' N. and 95° 31' and 96' 1' E., with an area of 395 square miles. Its surface is undulating, rising towards the north and north-west. Mogaung rice is grown near the borders of Kyaukse District ; the staple crop, however, is cotton. Irrigation renders this the richest township in the District. The population was 52,956 in 1891, and 57,338 in 1901, distributed in 160 villages, Natogyi (population, 3,146), a prosperous cotton market in the centre of the township, being the head-quarters. In 1903-4 the area cultivated was 161 square miles, and the land revenue and thathameda amounted to Rs. 1,17,000. Nator Subdivision.-Eastern subdivision of Rajshahi District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, lying between 24° 7' and 24° 48' N. and 88' 51' and 89' 21' E., with an area of 816 square miles. The popula- tion was 422,399 in 1901, compared with 443,511 in 1881, the density being 518 persons per square mile. It contains one town, NATOR (population, 8,654), the head-quarters; and 1,727 villages. With the exception of the Lalpur thana, situated on the Padma, most of this subdivision is a swampy depression, waterlogged and abounding in marshes, the largest of which is the great CHALAN Bi1.. Nator Town.-Head-quarters of the subdivision of the same name in Rajshahi District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, situated in 24' 26' N. and 89° 1' E., on the north bank of the Narad river, on the northern section of the Eastern Bengal State Railway, and on the main road from Rampur Boalia to Bogra. Population (1901), 8,654. It was formerly the capital of the District; but owing to its unhealthiness (the town being built on low marsh-land reclaimed from the river), the head-quarters were transferred to Rampur Boalia. Nator is a compact town, clinging close round the palace of the Nator Rajas. This family rose into power in the early part of the eighteenth century, and gradually obtained possession of most of the District; but it has since greatly declined. Nator was constituted a municipality in 1869. The income during the decade ending 19or-2 averaged Rs. 14,200, and the expenditure Rs. 13,500. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 15,6oo, including Rs. 5,7oo derived from a tax on persons (or property tax), Rs. 3,300 from a conservancy rate, and Rs. 3,000 from a tax on animals and vehicles; and the expenditure was Rs. 13,400. Nator contains