A-ENG.--A pass over the Arakan Yoma range, which is reached from Sinbyu-gyun or Salin in the Minbu district, through Nga-pè. The road crosses at a maximum height of 4,600 feet. A British party went to explore it after the conclusion of the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826. It is thus described: "A great trade was carried on before the war between Arakan and "Ava, in which it is said 40,000 people were annually employed. The former country exported Indian and European manufactures, such as velvets, broad-cloths, piece-goods, silks and muslins, and betel-nuts, salt, and other articles, the produce of its own soil; receiving in return ivory, silver, copper, palmyra-sugar, tobacco, oil and lackered boxes.