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BURMA 246 BURMA the Vermont Episcopal Institute, St. Jo- seph's and St. Mary's Academies (Ro- man Catholic), and high and graded schools. The city was settled in 1773; was a garrisoned post during the War of 1812; and was incorporated in 1865. Its material development has been largely due to its great lumbering in- dustries. The famous Col. Ethan Allen is buried b^^neath a handsome monument in Greenmoant Cemetery. Pop. (1910) 20,468; (1920) 22,779. traversed by great mountain ranges branching off from those of northern In- dia and running parallel to each other southward to the sea. Between these ranges and in the plains or valleys here situated the four great rivers of Burma — the Irrawaddy, its tributary the Chind- vnn, the Sittang, and the Salwen — flow in a southerly direction to the sea, watering the rich alluvial tracts of Lower Burma, and having at their mouths all the great seaports of the KYAILTEYO PAGODA, BURMA BURMA, a country of southern Asia, country — Rangoon, Bassein, Moulmein, bounded on the N. by Assam and Tibet, Akyab, etc. The Irrawaddy is of great on the E. by Chinese territory and Siam, value as a highway of communication elsewhere mainly by the Bay of Bengal; and traffic, being navigable beyond area, about 230,000 square miles. It is Bhamo, near the Chinese frontier, or