294 NGA-PU-TAIV-NICOBARS. and forming, as at Cape Negrais, rugged and sea-washed escarpments. In a few places are small rice plains; but as a rule such cultivation as exists is on the hillsides. The Arakan Yomas attain no great elevation in this township. Two principal passes cross the range. The chief rivers are the MYIT-TA-YA and the THAN-DWE. Large vessels can enter the latter and pass up about 6 miles. Nga-pu-taw comprises i revenue circles. Population (1876–77) 20,037; (1881) 23,346. Gross revenue (1876–77), £8013; (1881), £11,022. Nga-pú-taw. — Head-quarters of Nga-pu-taw township, Bassein District, Lower Burma; situated on Nga-pu-taw island in the Bassein river, 21 miles below Bassein town. Population (1881) 928. Nga-thaing-chaung (or Nga-thaing-khyaung). — Head-quarters of the Nga-thaing-chaung Sub-division of Bassein District, Irawadi Division, Lower Burma; situated on the Bassein river, in a rice-producing tract. Contains a court-house and the usual public buildings. Population (1881) 3557; revenue (1881-82), £1144. Nga-won.—River in Pegu Division, Lower Burma. - See BASSEIN. Niamti.–Village in Shinogá District, Mysore State.—See NYAMTI. Nibárí.–Village in the Gáro Hills District, Assam ; situated on the Jinári or eastern source of the Jingirám river, where it debouches upon the plains of Goálpárá. The bázár is a centre of trade where the Gáros exchange their hill products for rice, cloth, dried fish, etc. The dwar or lowland tract of the same name contains valuable sál timber, yielding revenue to Government; and an area of 10 square miles was proclaimed a Government reserve in June 1883 under the name of the Jinári Forest Reserve. Nibrang.–Pass in Bashahr (Bussahir) State, Punjab, over the range which bounds Kunáwar to the south; lies in lat. 31° 22' N., and long. 78° 13' E., between two perpendicular rocks, 35 feet in height, and bears a striking resemblance to a gateway. Elevation above sea-level, 16,035 feet. Nichlaval. – Village in Maharajganj tahsil, Gorakhpur District, North-Western Provinces; situated at the ineeting of several unmetalled roads and cross country tracks, 51 miles north-north-east of Gorakhpur town. Although the population is not returned in the Census Report, Nichlaval is a large and important village, and the principal mart in the north of Gorakhpur District, from whence a large export of rice, both locally grown and from Nepál, takes place. The village contains a third-class police station, and District post-office. A few miles distant are the ruins of a castle or fort, the scene of a sharp fight during the Nepalese campaign. Nicobars. — A cluster of islands lying to the south of the Andamans, in the Bay of Bengal, between lat. 6° 40' and 9° 20' N., and long. 93° and 94 E. The area of the whole archipelago
