602 Account of the Territory and Inhabitants [Dec. 



This line with part of Johole and Mount Ophir forms the eastern 

 and northern boundary ; to the southward, Naning is bounded by the 

 Malacca and Assahan territory ; on the west by Malacca, and the left 

 branch of the Lingie or Rumbowe river. 



The face of the country presents an undulating extent, interspersed 

 ■with high knolls thickly clothed with jungles ; the hollows, or rather 

 flats between these undulations, where the water lodges in the rainy 

 season, average 70 or 80 yards in width, and either form a swamp or 

 paddy-ground, according to the industry or otherwise of the natives 

 in the vicinity. 



The soil on the high grounds is red and gravelly generally ; on the 

 flats, soft and whitish. Pipe-clay is found in some parts, as also a rich 

 black soil. 



Naning has only three streams, scarcely to be called rivers — Sungie 

 Rumbowe, Sungie Malacca, and Sungie Londoo ; of these, the Rum- 

 bowe stream is much the largest. It enters Naning from Rumbowe 

 near Qualla Maraboo, whence it makes its exit into the Malacca terri- 

 tory, a little below the place where it receives the waters of Sungie 

 Londoo. It is here nearly 16 yards broad, and passable for troops in 

 dry weather. In the rains it is not fordable. 



Trees thrown across here and there constitute the only bridges ; 

 boats come up, but their supply is precarious. 



This and the Lingie river unite below Sempong, a tongue of land 

 belonging to Rumbowe, which is formed by the division of the two 

 streams, about six miles below the north-western extremity of Naning, 

 and nearly midway between it and the sea, where it empties itself, 

 dividing the Malacca and Salengore territories about 24 miles to the 

 northward of Malacca. Up to Sempong its mean breadth is 180 

 fathoms : soundings at the mouth (high-water and spring-tides) seven 

 and eight fathoms. The tide barely reaches to the Naning terri- 

 tory. 



Sungie Londoo is a small stream taking its rise at Bukit Kayu Arang, 

 or the Ebony Hills in the Malacca territory. It enters Naning near 

 Cahow, taking an almost northerly course, and emptying itself into the 

 Rumbowe river below Si Maraboo. 



Sungie Malacca is formed of two branches, taking their rise, the one 

 in the hills of Rumbowe, the other near Battang Malacca, in Naning ; 

 they unite near Sabang, taking a westerly direction, and quitting Nan- 

 ing near Sungiepattye, fall into the sea at Malacca, having an embou- 

 chure of about 16 yards wide. In the wet season it is navigable for pro- 

 vision and baggage boats to Ching in Malacca, and thence by Malayan 

 canoes (sampans) to Sabang in Naning. 



