326 R'OORKEE TOW11r
Besides the Bengal Sappers and Miners, two heavy batteries of
artillery are ordinarily stationed here. The cantonment income and
expenditure re about Rs..6,ooo annually, and the population of the
cantonment in rgor was 2,951,
RosorT..-Town in Darbhanga District, Bengal. See RUSERA.
Roshnil,biLd.-Estate in Tippera District, Eastern Bengal and
Assam. See CHAKLA RoSHNABAD.
RcailLs.-Place of archaeological interest in Jhelum District, Punjab.
See Roxras.
Ruby Mines District.-District in the Mandalay Division of
Upper Burma, lying between 22° 42' and 24° r' N. and 95° 58' and 96°
43' E., with an area of r,9W square miles. The Shan State of Mung-
mit (Momeik) lies to the east, And is for the present administered as
a ,subdivision of the District. The combined area is bounded on the
rlprth by Katha and' Bhamo Districts ; on the east by the North
senwi State ; on the south by the Tawngpeng and Hs1paw States,
and Mandalay District; and on the west by Shwebo and Katha Dis
tricts. With the exception of a thin strip of land about 20 miles long
by 2 miles wide, half-way down its western border, the whole area lies
Physical east of the Irrawaddy. The District proper consists
aspects. of two tracts, essentially different in configuration:,
a long plain running north and south bordering the
river and extending .back some dozen miles from its banks; and in
the south a mass of,rugged mountains, stretching eastwards from the
level, in the centre of which lies the Mogok plateau. North of this
mass the ground rises rapidly from the plains to a ridge bordering
the District proper on the east and separating it from the basin of the
Shweli, in which the whole of the Mongmit -State is comprised. The
highest peak in the District is Taungme, 7 miles north-west of Mogok
and 7,555 feet above the sea; and elsewhere are several imposing hills,
conspicuous among them being the Shweudaung (6,23r feet), a little
to the west of the first-named eminence. The Irrawaddy washes nearly
the whole of the western border of the District from north to south, the
upper part of its course being wide and dotted with islands, while
the lower part, known as the first defile, lies confined between steep
rocky banks which give a succession of picturesque views to the
traveller on the river. The watercourses running across the plains into
the Irrawaddy are for the most part short and of little importance.
After the Irrawaddy the river most worthy of note is the Shweli (or
Nam Mao), a considerable stream, which enters the Mongmit :State
from China near the important trade centre of Namhkam, and runs in
a rocky defile in a south-westerly direction through Mongmit as far as
the village of Myitson. Here : it abruptly takes a northerly course till
1 Excluding Mongmit State.
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