British Burma and its people: being sketches of native ... - Khamkoo

Physical Geography.
doung Peak of this range in 19° 29' 3" N. lat., and
thence an arbitrary line, marked at certain distances
by pillars and cairns, continues to define the northern
boundary in a straight line to the range of mountains
east of the Sittoung River.
There the independent
State of Karennee intervenes, completing the boundary
between Upper Burma and the British province,
which marches on the west with the Siamese
Empire.
British Burma is both naturally and geographically
separated into five divisions—namely, Arracan,
the Irrawaddy VaUey, " the Sittoung (or Sittang)
VaUey, the Salween Valley, and Tenasserim. Of
these, the first three are formed by the Arracan,
Pegu, and Poungloung ranges,
which traverse the
country in a north and south direction, and form
the watershed of the Irrawaddy and Sittoung Rivers.
The valleys of these two streams unite in their
southern portions into an enormous littoral plain
stretching from the southern end of the Arracan
mountains (near Cape Negrais) along the whole
coast to Martaban, at the mouth of the Salween.
The province contains politically three 'Divisions,'
Arracan, Pegu, and Tenasserim. The total
area is 93,664 square miles, being about 4,000 square
miles larger than Great Britain.
Of the whole, about 36,204 square miles are
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