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abruptly, the pass crossed by Witti being little over 2,000 feet high. But farther 

 south this explorer failed to discover any pass lower than 8,900 feet, while some 

 of the summits in this section of the chain attain elevations of over 6,500 feet. 

 Towards the south-west the main range is still for the most part unexplored, 

 nothing being known beyond the names of a few peaks visible from the sea. 



Fig. 46 — Kina-Balu. 

 Scale 1 : 1,280,000. 



.b oF 



to 80 

 Feet. 



Depths. 



80 to 160 

 Feet. 



160 Feet and 

 upwards. 



18 MUes 



Everything is vaguely designed on the maps, except in the basin of the river 

 Brunei, south and south-east of the capital, where Mounts Main and Marud both 

 exceed 8,000 feet in height. 



The central nucleus of the whole orographic system, whence flow south-west, 

 west, and east the upper affluents of the three great Bornean rivers, has not yet 

 been visited by any Europeans, and is known only by name. According to the 



