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Kuiiutiin. The vallev is rather small with low hills ou either side. 

 The kanuKj or wash-dirt, which was being worked for tin, as the 

 miners approached the high ground on the north side of the valley, 

 held more and more galena, mixed with the tin oxide, and when the 

 foot of the hill was reached, the lead ore was found in masses. It 

 is reported to be the outcrop of a lode. 



Lead occurs, associated with tin oxide, iron pyrites and copper 

 ores, in the Pahang Consolidated Company's lode deposits at Suugei 

 Limbing, so that it is just possible that lode tin ore may be discovered 

 at Suugei Jambu also. 



Taiping, Pkrak, 



:^dth October, 1907. 



SiK. — I have the honour to inform you that I have assayed the 

 sample of alluvial galena, from Kuantau, that you sent me some time 

 back, with the following results : 



Lead ... ... ... ... 78 per cent. 



Silver ... ... ... ... 1 oz. 12 dwt. 6 grs. per ton 



2. The galena is of good quality, as far as its lead contents are 

 concerned ; for not only is the percentage high, 1)ut the metallic 

 button obtained was soft under the hammer and evidently free from 

 impurity. 



3. The proportion of silver is so small that it would not pay to 

 extract. It is, in fact, the j)oorest galena I have ever assayed from the 

 Malav Peninsula. 



1 have, etc., 



L. WRA-Y, 



Thb- Bkitish Kesident, Director of Mmevim, F.M.8. 



Pahang. 



REPORT ON THE MUSEUMS DEPARTMENT 

 FOR THE YEAR 190(3. 



PEKAK STA'JE MUSEUM. 



isJATISFACTORY progress was made in all the departments during 

 the year, the greatest additions being made to the ethnological 

 and economic sections. Pahang, Tringganu, Negri Sembilau, Selangor 

 and Malacca were visited, and large Cf)llection8 made in these States: 

 while the Singapore Agi'i-Horticultural Show yielded, as did the 

 previous one held in Kuala Lumpur, quite an extensive series of 

 specimens. 



