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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 2.

2 PYf1PALLI This is the highest town in the District, being about 1,750 feet above sea-level, and is probably the healthiest station. Population (19oi), 3,666. It is the head-quarters of a deputy-tahsilddr. There is a good travellers' bungalow situated in a fine tope planted by Mr. Robertson, a former Collector. The representatives of the ancient poligdrs who built the town and fort still reside here, and draw pensions from Government. Pyapon District.-A sea-board delta District in the Irrawaddy Division of Lower Burma, lying along the Gulf of Martaban, between 15° 4o' and 16° 41' N. and 95° 6' and 96° 6' E., with an area of 2,137 square miles. In shape it is a truncated triangle, the sides being the Irrawaddy on the west and the To or,China Bakir river on the east, while the base is formed by the sea-coast, which has a general south west to north-east direction. It is bounded on the east by Hantha- waddy District; on the west by Myaungmya ; and on the north by Ma-ubin. The entire area consists of a vast plain, intersected by tidal creeks and waterways. With the exception of some Physical aspects very small areas called kondans, the whole of this . level is subject to inundation at high spring-tides, and a good deal is submerged throughout the monsoon period. The kondans are narrow strips of land, about 4 to 1o feet above the level of the plain, on which the soil is dry and sandy. They are supposed to be the remnants of old sea-beaches. The rivers are all tidal, and form the south-eastern portion of the network of waters by which the Irra waddy finds its way into the Gulf of Martaban. That river, running southwards to the sea, bounds the District on the west, except in one place where Myaungmya District extends east of the stream. It is navigable by river craft at all seasons of the year. The To river (or China Bakir) takes off from the Irrawaddy in Ma-ubin District, and runs in a south-easterly direction, separating Pyapon from Hantha- waddy. Four miles below Dedaye it spreads into a secondary delta, its two western branches being called the Donyan and Thandi rivers, both wide but of little importance. Into the To river itself (the eastern branch), at the extreme south-east corner of the District, flows the Thakutpin or Bassein creek, a tidal waterway which gives river com- munication with Rangoon. In Ma-ubin District, about 20 miles below the point where the To river leaves the Irrawaddy, the Kyaiklat river branches off from the To, and flows in a southerly direction, past Kyaiklat and Pyapon, into the sea. In the latter part of its course it is called the Pyapon river. A few miles below Kyaiklat the Gon- nyindan stream takes off from the Kyaiklat river, and flows first south- west as far as Bogale, where it is connected by various creeks with the Irrawaddy, and thence almost due south into the sea at Pyindaye, under the name of the Dala river. Its lower reaches are separated