Sagaing, a decayed town of Burma, extends for a mile and a half along the right bank of the Irawadi, opposite to Ava. Its houses, mean and few, are embosomed in orchards and gardens, and embrace amongst them a great number of ruined temples. Sagaing preceded Ava as the capital, for a time, of Burma.
Sagaing
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 72
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