Menam
Britishnoun
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Gloucester, Mass. Boowoo & Ubum Sirs: Before leaving there I fished the upper Menam, the regal preserve to which I had been granted piscary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only noteworthy exception is the Siamese branch, which forms the bulk of the population in the Menam basin.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
The logs are cut by natives, hauled to the Menam River, and floated to Bangkok; there they are squared and sent to European markets.
From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)
Bangkok, which, with its suburbs, has a population about equal to that of Boston, is built on the banks of the country's greatest river, the Menam, some forty miles from its mouth.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
Its direction is north and south; its dimensions linear, rather than broad; and it bears nearly the same relation to the water-system of the Salwín that that of the Siamese does to the river Menam.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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