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Encyclopedia Britannica



BASSEIN

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 492 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BASSEIN , a
district
  and town in the Irrawaddy division of Lower Burma, in the delta of the Irrawaddy. The
district
  has been reduced to 4127 sq. m., from 8954 sq. m. in 1871, having given up a large
tract
  to the district of Myaungmya formed in 1896.
A mountain range called the Anauk-pet Taungmyin stretches through the district from N. to S. along the
coast
 . The principal river of the district is the Irrawaddy, which debouches on the sea at its eastern extremity through a delta intersected with salt water creeks, among which the Pyamalaw, Pyinzalu, Kyunton, and Ngawun Shagegyi or Bassein river rank as important arms of the sea. Irrawaddy and Inyegyi are the only two lakes in the district. The delta of the Irrawaddy forms, wherever cultivable, a vast sheet of
rice
 , with
cotton
 , sesamum, and tobacco
as subsidiary crops. In 1901 the population was 391,427. BASSEIN, the
chief
  town and port, is the
capital
  of the district
and division, and is situated on the eastern bank of the Bassein river, one of the main arteries by which the waters of the Irrawaddy discharge themselves into the sea. It forms an important seat of the
rice
  trade with several steam rice mills, and has
great
  capabilities both from a mercantile and a military point of view, as it commands the
great
  outlet of the Irrawaddy. It fell before the British arms, in May 1852, during the second Burmese war. In 1901 it had a population of 31,864. The vessels of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company ply between Rangoon and Bassein, &c., by inland waters, and a railway opened in 1903 runs north-
eastward through the centre of the district, to
Henzada
  and Letpadan.


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