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1. amomipais82
   

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   he surface of the country is flat and parts of the circle are subject to
   iuundation during the rains. The principal products are rice, cotton and
   tobacco. The inhabitants of some of the villages are largely employed in
   the fisheries. Population in 1876, 3,623 land Revenue Rs. 6,916 and gross
   Revenue ; Rs. 20,598.
   
   AING-THA-BYOO. — A village in the Myenoo township, Bassein district,
   on the Bassein river, a short distance below Le-myet-hna, containing a popula-
   tion of over 600 souls,
   
   AING-TOON. — A small river in the Shwe-gyeen district, which rises
   in a spur of the Pegu Yomas and after a generally easterly course through
   the Anan-baw circle falls into the Tsittoung near the village of Doungmo.
   
   AKOUK-TOUNG. — The name given to the eastern extremity of a
   spur running down from the Arakan Yoma mountains which abuts on the
   Irrawaddy, less than a mile south of the boundary between the Henzada and
   Prome districts, in an abruptly scarped cliff some 300 feet high, artificially
   honeycombed with caves containing images of Gaudama Boodha and
   of Rahans : here the Irrawaddy enters the delta and gradually spreads out into
   numerous anastomosing creeks and rivers. This hill was the scene of two
   or three engagements between the English and the Burmese during the
   second Burmese war and it was here that Major Gardner was surprised and
   killed {vide Henzada district :—Histori/). The spur which terminates at
   Akouktouug formed the northern limit of the ancient Taking kingdom of
   Pe"-u, west of the Irrawaddy, and before the formation of the delta vpas a
   Customs station, whence the name " Customs Revenue Hill."
   
   AKYAB.— A town on the coast of Arakan, in 20° 8' N. and 92° 57' E.,
   at the mouth of the Kooladan river, the head -quarters of the Arakan division
   and of the Akyab district. Originally a Mug fishing village it was chosen
   as the chief station of the province of Arakan soon after the close of the first
   Ano-lo-Burmese war when the extreme unhealthiness of Mrohoung or old
   Arakan, the last capital of the ancient Arakanese kingdom and subsequently
   the seat of the Burmese governor of Rakhaing, rendered the removal of the
   troops and civil establishments a matter of necessity. The site, only fifteen
   feet above the level of the sea at half tide and with places below high-water
   mark, was laid out with broad raised roads, forming causeways, with deep
   ditches on either side. Owing principally to its situation, easily accessible
   by boats from the rich rice land in the interior and with a fine harbour
   formed by the mouth of the river, it soon became an emporium of trade
   and was resorted to by numerous ships seeking rice cargoes. A large influx
   of population took place from Chittagong, Ramoo and Cox's Bazaar in the
   Chittagong division of Bengal, and from Mrohoung, and the town rapidly
   increased in wealth and in importance. Though well laid out at starting and
   at first rapidly and then more gradually increasing in population and in size
   the want of labourers was a bar to any very great improvement, and the
   raising and metalling of the roads, digging ditches and tanks, filling up
   swamps, and planting trees had to be carried on almost entirely by convict
   labour. In 1836 the shops were found "well supplied with the diflPerent
   varieties of grain which are in use amongst the inhabitants of Bengal, from
   whence they are imported ; and British cloths, consisting of piece-goods,
   muslins and broad-cloths, cutlery, crockery, glass-ware and native manu-
   
   
   
   BRITISH BURMA GAZETTEER. 3
   
   factures" were exposed for sale. A few years later the troops were withdrawn
   and the cantonment abandoned except by the European civil officers. As
   years rolled on and commerce increased the town progressed and substantial
   houses were constructed.

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