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SALWEEN

Volume 19 · 100 words · 1860 Edition

or Salleen, a large river of Further India, rises on the eastern frontiers of Tibet, and flows southwards, forming, for a great part of its course, the eastern boundary of Burmah, and then entering the British dominions, and separating Pegu from the Tenasserim provinces. It falls into the Gulf of Mastaban by a broad mouth, between the towns of Moulenin and Mastaban. The whole length is estimated at 600 miles; and though the river has been very little explored, it is believed to flow through a fertile, well-wooded country, and to be navigable for a considerable distance from the sea.