ANNUAL REPORT ON THE PERAK MUSEUM FOR 1895. 71 



GEOLOGY. 



The whole collectiou has been re - arranged, and a con- 

 siderable portion of it put out for the first time. An interesting 

 collection of minerals was obtained by exchange from the State 

 Mining Bureau of California. A few alluvial gold s})ecimens 

 were purchased in Batang Padang, and other minerals were 

 presented and collected. 



In the early part of the year prospecting was carried out 

 at Trong in the Matang district. The results obtained shewed 

 that beyond a little "lanipan" working at the base of the hills 

 and in the gullies nothing is to be expected in the way of mining 

 in the district. Good samples of tin -sand can be easily procured, 

 and this has led t*o many false hopes being raised in the past. 

 There are also the traces of numeroiis old workings, but it is 

 probable that these were done with forced or slave labour in the 

 old Malayan days, so that the question of paying expenses did 

 not enter into the matter. Prospecting was done amongst these 

 old workings, and it was proved that the amount of tin was quite 

 insufficient to cover the outlay necessary to raise it. The vallej'' 

 beyond Kamunting was next prospected, but though it contains 

 tin throughout it is very doubtful if it would pay to work. One 

 small area" of good land was, however, found, and this will be 

 worked. 



Some prospecting for gold was done in Batang Padang, 

 around the Bukit Mas mine and in other places, but it is too 

 soon to be able to estimate what the results may be. 



Acting on instructions received from Government I went 

 to Slim to inspect the coal reported to have been found there 

 by Mr. W. G. Maxwell. It turned out to be only the graphite 

 shale which has been noticed many times before by various 

 people. The formations in Perak, as far as known, are all 

 either too old or too new to be coal bearing. 



Mr. T. H. Hill proposes to work for manure a deposit of 

 phosphate of lime at Naga Bisi, near Ipoh, which I discovered 

 when prospecting for a tin lode some years back. The deposit 

 is associated with ores of tin, copper, iron, arsenic and lead,. so 

 that the opening uj) of it may be of some interest. 



In a search for shell movuids in Lower Perak some interest- 

 ing facts bearing on the formation of the coast and the valley 

 of the Perak river were brought to light. At Pasir Paujang, 

 Laut, there are no less than seven lines of old beaches, and 

 between each there is a piece of low -lying land now used as 

 padi fields. The beaches themselves are long, low banks of shells 



