HJORRING

hjorring, an ancient town of denmark, capital of the _amt_ (county) of its name, in the northern insular part of the peninsula of jutland. pop. (1901) 7901. it lies 7 m. inland from the shore of jammer bay, a stretch of coast notoriously dangerous to shipping. on the coast is lonstrup, a favoured seaside resort. in this neighbourhood as well as to the south-east of hjorring, slight elevations are seen, deserving the name of hills in this low-lying district. hjorring is on the northern railway of jutland, which here turns eastward to the cattegat part of frederikshavn (23 m.), a harbour of refuge. hkamti long (called kantigyi by the burmese, and bor hkampti by the peoples on the assam side), a collection of seven shan states subordinate to burma, but at present beyond the administrative border. estimated area, 900 sq. m.; estimated pop. 11,000. it lies between 27 deg. and 28 deg. n. and 97 deg. and 98 deg. e., and is bordered by the mishmi country on the n., by the patkai range on the w., by the hukawng valley on the s. and e., and indeed all round by various chingpaw or kachin communities. the country is little known. it was visited by t. t. cooper, the chinese traveller and political agent at bhamo, where he was murdered; by general woodthorpe and colonel macgregor in 1884, by mr errol grey in the following year, and by prince henry of orleans in 1895. all of these, however, limited their explorations to the valley of the mali-hka, the western branch of the irrawaddy river. hkamti has shrunk very much from its old size. it was no doubt the northernmost province of the shan kingdom, founded at mogaung by sam long-hpa, the brother of the ruler of kambawsa, when that empire had reached its greatest extension. the irruption of kachins or chingpaw from the north has now completely hemmed the state in. prince henry of orleans described it as "a splendid territory, fertile in soil and abundant in water, where tropical and temperate culture flourish side by side, and the inhabitants are protected on three fronts by mountains." according to him the kiutze, the people of the hills between the irrawaddy and the salween, call it the kingdom of moam.