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WLAPUR- MYSORE. 87 boats of 5000 bushels burden, and in high winds the inner passage round the island is preferred by native boatmen to the open Bassein river, there nearly three miles broad. About + miles inland, the northern mouth receives a large portion of the drainage from the Arakan Hills, brought down by the river Taw-gyi. Mylapur (lailapur or Saint Thomé).- A suburb of the city of MADRAS. The name is spelt variously-Mayilipuram, or Peacock Town; Malaipuram, or Mount Town; Heliapur, Nirapur (by the Portuguese), and Veelapor in the Tohfatal Majahudin. It has been suggested that it is the Valifattan of Rashíd-ud-din, but more recent inquirers favour the identification of Vegapatam with Ilalifattan. The great Tamil classic, the Kural, is said to have been written in Mylapur. A legend relates that Mylapur formed the principal scene of the labours of St. Thomas in India. The shrine, regarded as the tomb of the apostle, was visited by several travellers in the 13th and 14th centuries. It attracted the Portuguese to this spot, and gave the Portuguese name to it. Mylaveram.— Town in Kistna District, Madras Presidency.— See MAILAVERAJ. Myllim (or Molim).---Petty State in the Khási Hills, Assam. Population (1881) 12,351 ; revenue, £293. The presiding chief, whose title is Seim, is named U Hain Mánik. Principal products-rice, potatoes, millet, Indian corn, ginger, soh-phlang (an edible root), sugar-cane, and cinnamon. Iron is found; the manufactures consist of baskets and iron implements. Myo-haung. — Township and town in Akyab District, Arakan Division, Lower Burma. --See MRO-HAUNG. Myouk - bhet - myo. — Township in Sandoway District, Arakan Division, Lower Burma.–See MYAUK-BHET-NYO. Myoung-mya.–Seaboard township, town, and creek in Bassein District, Irawadi Division, Lower Burma.-See MYAUXG-JYA. Myoung-mya-houng.-Creek in the Myaung-mya township, Bassein District, Irawadi Division, Lower Burma. --- See MYAUNG-HIYA-HAUXG. ore (or Vlahesh-uru, Buffalo town,' the commonly accepted derivation being from Mahesh-asura, the buffalo-headed demon; corrupted to Jlaheshúr, and to Jysore, llaisrir). -Vative State in Southern India ; situated between 11° 40' and 15° v. lat., and between 74° 40' and 78° 30' E. long., surrounded on all sides by British territory. The administrative head-quarters are at BANGALORE, but Mysore City is the capital. The Mahárájá resides in the two cities alternately for several months in the year. The cantonment of Bangalore is now an "assigned tract' forming the civil and inilitary station under British administration. The following table gives the statistics of area and population, according to the Census of 1881: