We are now on the Bassein Creek, twenty-five miles long, going across the delta west from Rangoon River to the Irrawaddy to steam up it for five days, tying up at night.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
It is the delta of the Irawaddi which isolates the Tenasserim provinces; and the British dependency from which it separates them is- Arakhan.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
One or two great mounds by the brook can show a small bed still, and here and there a group grows at the mouth of these deep ditches, on the little delta formed of the sand, mud, and decaying twigs brought down.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies