Salween

The phrase "from the Salween to the sea" was invented and had some effect.

West of the Salween, the European cant about opium has penetrated.

The River Salween is the boundary on the east, and divides it from Kengtung.

Wide tracts were laid waste, and the peasantry, deserting their fields, had joined in the fights or gone across the Salween.

The poppy is largely cultivated in Yunnan and in the hilly country on the Salween.