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BEITISH BUEMA.
CHAPTEE I.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
Burma, including under this designation both, the
British province
and the independent Kingdom of
Burma, extends along the eastern shore of the Bay
of Bengal from the Chittagong division of Lower
Bengal to the Isthmus of Kraw. It is bounded on
the east by the Empire of Siam and the Kingdom of
Cambodia to about 21° 30' 'N. lat., and thence to
its
northernmost extremity by the Chinese province
of Yu-nan. Its northern boundary can hardly be defined;
it apparently runs up into an angle among
the Snowy Eanges of Eastern Tibet, in about
28° N. lat. Thence it stretches westerly, bordering
on Upper Assam, Munipur, the Lushai Hills,
and the Chittagong division of Bengal to the Naaf
Eiver.
Omitting the long narrow strip
of mountainous