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86 NYA UNG-MYA-HAUNGMYIT-TA-YA. in its upper course, large boats can pass at all seasons with the flood tide. Its extreme length is 15 miles; the chief branch is the Tha-yebon, the head-waters of the YWE. Myaung-mya-haung.–Creek in the Myaung-mya township, Bassein District, Irawadi Division, British Burma. It leaves the Tha-ye-bon a few miles from its northern inouth, and, flowing in a generally south-west direction, falls into the BASSEIN RIVER by two mouths, the northern called Po-laung-gyi, and the southern, Pin-le-ga-le. It is tidal in the dry season, and navigable by boats of light draught. Mya-wa-dí.–Portion of the Kámá township, Thayet-myo District, Irawadi Division, British Burma. Mye-bon.—Township in Kyauk-pyú District, Arakan Division, British Burma; comprising 12 revenue circles. Population (1877) 19,607; (1881) 19,640; villages, 124. In 1881 the land revenue was £3279; capitation tax, £2201; net tax, £122 ; local cess, £334. Gross revenue, £5936. Area under cultivation, 22,457 acres, of which 21,910 acres were under rice, and 92 under tobacco. The agricultural stock was, in the same year--horned cattle, 9709; pigs, 786 ; goats, 18; ploughs, 2383; boats, 1530. The head-quarters is at Mye-bon, on an island formed by the numerous creeks which intersect the south and south-east portion of Mye-bon township. Mye-dé. — Township in Thayet-iyo District, Irawadi Division, British Burma. Lat. 18° 50' 3" to 19° 29' 3" N., and long. 95° 13' 30" to 95° 55' E. Area, 922 square miles. Population (1876) 60,700 ; (1881) 66,192. Bounded on the north by Upper Burma; on the east by the Pegu Yoma range; on the south by Prome District; and on the west by the river Irawadi (Irrawaddy). The cultivated area in 1881-82 was 35,949 acres; gross revenue (1881), £9808. This township includes 92 registered village tracts, divided into 13 revenue circles. On the British annexation of Pegu in 1852, Mye-dé was divided into the 3 townships of Nyaung-bin-teip, Nga-taik, and Mye-dé. The first i said to have been founded by a Shan king of Ava in 1438 A.D. ; and the family of the Myo-thúgyi, or revenue officer, is the oldest in the District of Thayet-myo. The total revenue under Burmese rule may be set down at £1729, besides annual 'presents' to the court at Ava. Mye-dé, the former head-quarters of the township, is now superseded by ALLAN-MYO. Myit-ma-ka.—A strean, rising in Prome District, flow's southward through Tharawadi and Hanthawadi Districts, Pugu Division, British Burma. Myit-ma-ka is the upper portion of the HLAING RIVER. Myit-ta-ya.—River of Bassein District, Irawadi Division, British Burma; rises in the eastern slopes of the Arakan range, and, after a south-south-east course of about 30 miles, falls into the BASSEIN RIVER by two large mouths nearly 3 miles apart. These can be entered by