An Illustrated Geography of Burma for Middle Schools

The chief mouths of the Irawadi are known as the Bassein river the Pyamalaw river the Pyapon river the (Una Bakir or To river and the Rangoon river. [...] East of the Arakan Yoma comparatively little rain falls in the plains bordering the rivers and the Upper Burma dry zone comprises the country in the valleys of the Chindwin Irawadi and Sittaung from about the twentieth parallel northward to the Tropic of Cancer. [...] At the town of Myinmu the Mu river enters the Irawadi which at the southern end of the district receives the waters of its great tributary the Chindwin almost its equal in size. [...] The waters of the Yaw the Myittha and the Chindwin are diverted into irrigation channels dug in the time of the Burmese kings. [...] The Bassein or Thakutpin creek about twenty miles below Rangoon opens to the west giving access to the China Bakir and the main course of the Irawadi.42 GEOGRAPHY OF BURMA The steamers of the Irawadi Flotilla Company connect Rangoon by means of this creek with all the towns on the Irawadi and in the delta.