JAMMED T IM B ER
which separate it from the Irrawaddy, and of the Shan
hills, which in the south fall away somewhat to the
east. The Salwin, for the greater part of its course
a river essentially foreign, enters the limits of Burma
in its last hundred miles, and pours its waters into
the Burmese seas under the golden spires of
Moulmein. The mountains reach down in a narrowing
peninsula to Victoria Point, the southernmost limit of
Burma. This last strip of coast is known as Tenasserim.
It is thinly populated, and it has never played any
substantial part in the development of the race. An
archipelago of singular interest and beauty lies off its
western face, and some four thousand islands own its
supremacy.
