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largest. ine tour of what appears to have been a rubble wall 
was traced i north-easterly direction for 160 or 170 feet, it was 
then lost boróoth the peat which the fire had not consumed. 
On the undercliff, on E south-eastern side, there were many pieces 
of clay bricks and granite slabs found, and from their positions they 
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doubt volui 
he granite slabs are fairly uniform in size and well tooled, and 
would appear to have been eut from boulders, as in some instances 
Mee a have been et in "s rough which are precisely similar ve 
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ны dud laterite blocks juve been deposited in the Perak State 
Museum. 
Irby made most careful a of the Malays from the 
a helene ampongs who came scores to see the discovery. 
They all said they knew nothing uer any ancient settlement on 
Jerai and that their ancestors had not handed down traditions con- 
cerning it. Later on others said there must have been a Siamese 
matory on Jerai, *as the bricks were unknown in their parts and 
must have come from over the sea," and the bodies were placed in the 
holes and burnt there. But some Siamese who came up said that it 
was the custom to burn their dead above ground. 
The Malays further said that in sailing to Acheen, Gunong Jerai is 
visible until a high mountain in Sumatra оша in view, which fact 
might suggest that signal fires had been kept burning on tipte in 
former P to guide mariners, ae from ‘Sumatra, at night 
The решш of Yen, Raja tem had a long story that Jerai 
had once been inhabited by * Gergasi," creatures of human fo ho 
devoured ordinary mortals, but that 1 none had wem known to exist for 
the last 200 years. His theory was that these tures were respon- 
sible for the constructions fou € Many тЫ tales, equally impro- 
bable, were given. 
There can be little doubt but,that the builders must have been 
iade antecedent to the Malays and that the latter know nothing about 
e depth of peat on Jerai before the fire must have taken 
nie to form, as it rested on the sand-stone, which was almost 
probably Aet fed immediately with the belief that it was the resu 
of во места agency and not have returned. 
