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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HI. Commencing with Pegu and the other British Possessions in Burmah, I may state, that the Provinces conquered from the Burmese Empire, in the former and recent wars, were Arraean, Tenasserim, and Pegu. The whole population of the Burmese Empire, prior to these losses, was estimated by some as high as sixteen millions, and by others as low as three millions; but the most probable ealculation seems to have been six millions. When peace was made in 1828, Arraean and Tenasserim only were annexed to the British territory; and, Pegu being given up, though conquered, the Peguans or Taliens, who had manifested great sympathy with the English, beeame the objects of fearful revenge, so that their numbers are now so greatly reduced that it is believed that there are no more than 30,000 remaining. What their former numbers were, eannot be ascertained; but they were once a powerful and numerous nation. Arraean and Tenasserim, at the time of their annexation, were thinly peopled, and exported little of their produce. The population now is 343,339 in Arraean, and 191,176 in Tenasserim; in the former is the flourishing town of Akyab, with 14,500 inhabitants, and an export of about 175,000 of rice annually, which is constantly increasing; in the latter is Maulmein, with 40,000 people, a large timber and ship-building trade, and all the signs of a prosperous and flourishing community. Other towns also are rapidly improving, and the wealth of the country is increasing. No less than L'(KK),000 in specie have been imported into Akyab within the last six years; and all of it has remained in use there. The recently annexed province of Pegu contains, it is said, about 1,600,000 people. Through it runs the river Irrawaddy, one of the finest in the world; and there are several important towns, parti...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459096776
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 164
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459096770
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 304 gr


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