A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . (1911) (14781645685)

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Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon .
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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das, rest-houses, monasteries,and massive images in all stages ofdecay, where the inhabitants assemblefor their religious festivals. Acrossthe river is the Thinbawgyin suburb,containing the rice mills and storeyards of the principal merchants.There are two fine markets and alarge jail besides the usual publicbuildings. The Shwemakdaw pagodais said to have been originally erectedby Asoka a few years after thedeath of Gautama ; the other principalpagodas are the Tagaung Pagoda,the Thayatingyaimg Pagoda, and theMahabawdi Pagoda. ROUTE 5. Up tne CHINDWIN to KINDAT. This trip will take up a good dealof time, and as it contains little ofspecial interest it is not likely to beundertaken by the ordinary traveller.It may be performed by a weeklyIrrawaddy Flotilla steamer fromPakokku, or from Aloon, 73 m. byrailway from Sagaing (p. 460). Theriver scenery is good but not speciallyremarkable. Kindat is the head-quarters of the upper Chindwindistrict, but is not otherwise a placeof any importance.
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L.iiulnii JoJuL Murray CEYLON The traveller who can choose his own lime for visiting Ceylonand make sure of fine weather in Colombo, as well as for travellingin the interior, should choose February to May inclusive, whenNuwara Eliya also is climatically quite delightful, while often enjoy-able in August, September, December, and January.—Ferguson. The area of the Island is 25,481 sq. m., and the total population(including coolies) for 1911, 4,092,000. Details in 1907 were:—6559Europeans, 24,946 Burghers, 2,565,095 Sinhalese, 1,128,006 Tamils(including coolies), 238,757 Moors, 12,035 Malays, and 12,666 others.The exports from Ceylon have averaged during the last threeyears:—Tea (black), 180,000,000 lbs.; (green), 5,800,000 lbs.: coffee(Plantation), 1,500 cwts. ; (Liberian), 108 cwts. ; cardamoms, 7,760cwts.; cinnamon(quills), 29,111 cwts.; (chips), 28,160 cwts.; plumbago,594,360 cwts. ; cocoa, 78.614 cwts. ; coco-nut oil, 576,009 cwts. Totalquantity of Ceylon rubber exported in 1

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