TENASSERIM  , a

division of Lower Burma, bordering on Siam . Area, 36,076 sq. m . Pop . (1901) 1,159,558, including 38,269 Christians, the great majority of whom are Karens . The headquarters of the commissioner are at Moulmein . It is divided into six districts: Toungoo, Salween, That6n, Amherst, Tavoy and Mergui . It formed the tract south of Pegu conquered from Burma in 1826, which was for many years known as the Tenasserim province . The southern extremity of the division approaches the insular region of Malaysia, and it is fringed along its entire western coast by a number of islands, forming in the north the Moscos and in the south the Mergui Archipelago . The eastern frontier is formed by a mountain range 5000 ft. high, which acts as a water-parting between the Tenasserim and the Siamese river systems .