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part of the island (Table Peak), north of Klong Sarlakpet, and 
rises nearly to 2450 feet. 
The hills of Koh Chang consist of a rather small-grained 
eruptive rock, most commonly light-brown or red in colour, 
more seldom greenish. 
A narrow strip of plain surrounds the hills of Koh Chang; 
its soil is a very compact, reddish clay the presence of which 
is due to the denudation of the hills. 
Whereas no lakes or ponds of any importance are found 
in Koh Chang, a great number of small rivers and rivulets in- 
tersect the island taking their rise from the hills in the interior. Their 
water usually streams very quickly and they are often broken by 
waterfalls. Most commonly these waterfalls are small; some more 
important ones are found near the east-coast in Klong Munsé and 
a little more southward in Klong Majuim, near the west-coast in 
Klong Prao. In the dry season the rivers contain but little water; 
but during the south-west monsoon they swell and fill up their 
stony beds. When the rivers have reached the plains near the 
coast, their course becomes more quiet, their breadth increases 
and some of them are navigable for small crafts for some distance 
from the sea (Klong Prao, Klong Sarlakpet, the latter debouching 
in the great bay at the south-end of the island). 
Especially in the more exposed west-coast of Koh Chang the 
steep rocks go right down to the sea, but in most other places 
the shores are low and flat, their soil consisting of coral-sand‘) 
or stony gravel. Where rivers debouch and assume the propor- 
tions of more important estuaries, the ground is covered with a 
black mud and occupied by a luxuriant mangrove-vegetation. 
The hills of Koh Chang are all covered with the densest 
jungle from the feet to their highest top. As the vegetation on 
the whole, this jungle has been but little influenced by the scarce 
Siamese and Chinese population scattered along the coasts, where 
klongs debouch. 
Villages of some importance are situated at the mouths of 
Klong Munsé (east-coast) and Klong Sarlakpet (south-end); besides 
which some few people live at Klong Son (north-end), Klong Prao 
(west-coast), do Savan (south-end) and a few other places. 
') The sand here is often much more large-grained than on our northern 
shores consisting of big coral-fragments. In some places however common 
quartzy small-grained sand can be found. 
