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"Tradition would keep others fom making the ascent for many 
generations perhaps, and thus the agian would have had a 
undisturbed opportunity to form soil for itself and cover the ruins so 
effectually that when some venturesome Ma idi ay did arrive at the sum- 
mit all signs of any former settlement would be obscured. 
If such a catastrophe as the landslip on Jerai had occurred since 
the Malay occupation some tr n would remain as to what existed 
on it previously, but none does. On the other hand, the Malays have 
a tradition that Jerai was once аа. to Gunong Perak, а large 
mountain to the north-east, to ch it was married, and that sub- 
sequently it broke away and Ба e the parent of Pulau Bunting, ап 
island about 10 miles distant in а mers -westerly direction. 
This tradition may have been derived from some peor settlers 
with a knowledge of a gne landslip on Jerai, and who with poetic 
license had made the Most of it as a supernatural Hert, and 
omitted to lay any particular stress on the settlement which was 
destroyed by it. Perhaps some author ity ск the history of the Malay 
Peninsula may be "e to throw light on the age of these remains, 
and if some further search is made ‘and t um. remaining be care- 
fully handled it 1s Ten тозы some utensils or implements may yet 
be found. 
This account is accompanied by four photographs and a ground 
plan of the crest of Gunong Jerai which will explain themselves. For 
the Malay traditions I am indebted to Mr. Irby. 
G. A. LEFROY, 
TAIPING, Chief Surveyor, Perak. 
20th February, 1895. 
THE RUINS ON GUNONG JERAI, KEDAH. 
t was on the morning of 5th February E overhearing some 
conversation between Penghulu Awang, of n, and the coolies 
m a mass of Cong leaves and débris 1 from two to three, 
and a piled against the stumps of trees cut down by former 
rs, perhaps four feet in depth. 
I Seda away as much of the smouldering mass as possible, still 
keeping the fire going, and before evening had the court fairly clear of 
débris; but there still remained the stumps of three trees, the largest 
one on the eastern and the other pde = LA smaller, on the тонаш 
These i. which had тт cut, I should say, within a twelve 
month or so, were of the size and no doubt of the same age as the rest 
of the trees on the summit, and from the extent of the relics afterwards 
disclosed I believe tbat the whole top of the hill had been cleared at 
the time these were in use, and from these trees per haps some idea of 
the date of abandoning the place may be obtained. 
