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 BIL IX—BILIN- K YA IK- TO.

45 ^

^107,078;

A considerable amount of castor-oil Contains a Government bungalow and a Parsi

imports, ^^16,323.

manufactured.

is

tower of silence. Bllin {Bhileug or Bheeleng).

—

River in the Tenasserim Division of Burma. It rises in about the latitude of Kyauk-gyi among the mountains between the rivers Sittaung and Salwin, and after a southerly course of 282 miles, falls into the Bay of Bengal eastward of the mouth of the Sittaung. For many miles, the Bilin is shallow with a rapid current. When it enters the plains of Shwe-gyin the bed deepens and after flowing past Yin-iin and Bilin, and receiving the waters of numerous creeks, it becomes very tortuous, and finally spreads out into a bell mouth 2 miles broad, up which a bore rushes with great velocit)’. This, in the dry season, is felt as far as Bilin town. During the rains the river overflows its banks, and deposits rich alluvial mud on the bordering plains. Those in the south-east, the Thein-seip and Tha-tun, are now protected by the Dun-won and Kama-thaing embankBritish



’

‘

ment, raised a few miles south of the Kytine-ip

boundary of Shwe-g)’in

District.

From May

to

river,

the southern

September the portion

of the course of the Bilin between the mouths of the Shwe-le creek

and Kyune-ip Maulmain.

forms the main water-route from the Sittaung to

river

'Rilin (Bhtle?2g, Bheeleng.

— Town

and head-quarters of Bilin-KyaikBurma.

to township, Shwe-gyin District, Tenasserim Division, British

Lat 17° Burmese

14'

N.,

traders.

long.

A

97°

16'

E.



population (1881) 2274, chiefly

regularly built town, situated

on the

right

bank

of the river Bilin, with court and circuit houses, police station, and a market.

Uzana, Governor of Martaban, settled here with a number

of Burmese followers in 1824, when retreating before the British arms, and was confirmed as governor by the Burmese king. In 1830 he was

murdered, and the extent of territory under the governor’s control was During the second Burmese war, Bilin was surrendered to

reduced.

Soon afterwards, an insurrection, headed by a Shan and was suppressed by our troops. Since that time, the town has several times been attacked and plundered by robbers, and has twice been burnt down and rebuilt. Local revenue (1881-82) the

British.

Thiigyi, broke out,

^218. Bllin-kyaik-tO {BhUeng-kyaik-hto, Bheeleng-kyaik-hto). Shwe-g)’in District, Tenasserim Division, British Burma. at Bilin town.

—Township

in

Head-quarters

Population (1881) 38,964, chiefly Takings and Burmese.

Bounded north by the lower range of the Salwin Hill Tracts; south by the Bay of Bengal east by the Bilin, its only river and west by the



Kadat stream. Bilin-kyaik-to consists of a wide alluvial plain, traversed by numerous streams draining the southern hill slopes, and admitting the full rush of the tide, which rises into a ‘bore’ in every channel, and