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range is carboniferous. Nearly opposite to the city of 

 Brunai, this range bends to the south west, and the knoll 

 or hummock of land, termed Bukit Kianggi, well clothed 

 with timber and rather luxuriant vegetation, terminates 

 the range in a still more westerly direction, fronting the 

 city to the north. At the base of this hill a clear spring 

 gushes out, to which the natives may be constantly 

 observed pursuing their course, with canoes laden with 

 Bamboos, which serve them the purpose of water- vessels, 

 and generally consist of three joints, which contain about 

 as many gallons, or thirty Ibs., a load under which you may 

 frequently notice naked little urchins of four or five years 

 old, staggering from the canoes up and along the stages to 

 their houses ; this, although among their household duties, 

 is considered to belong to the department of the women. 

 As all the water used in the town appears to be derived 

 from this source, its supply is of course abundant ; and 

 as the rivulet which runs behind the hill is also bright 

 and fresh, and supplied from this hill, it leads us to a 

 geological inference, at which we were not otherwise able 

 to arrive during so rapid an examination, viz., that the 

 inclination of the sandstone beds on the southern face of 

 this hill is favourable to a south-westerly dip ; and as this 

 also coincides with the denuded parts at Areng and Cheri- 

 mon, and was subsequently found to correspond as far as 

 the northern extremity of Labuan, we may not be pre- 

 sumed to travel much out of bounds in assuming, that 

 the entire line between these extremes, probably thirty 

 miles in a N.E. direction, would afford, at certain depths 

 below the surface, a fair prospect of meeting with good 

 coal. Our examination up the Kianggi rivulet did not 



