28G MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



NEW MOUNTAIN SEEN IN PERAK. 



On a spur of the Gunong Bubu Range, which lies a short dis- 

 tance inland from the coast of Perak, in Latitude 4° 35' N. and 

 Longitude 100° 50' E., the Government of Perak has opened an 

 experimental plantation at an elevation of 3,200 feet on a hill 

 named Gunong Arang Para. The bungalow on this hill is named 

 " The Hermitage," and from that spot I saw, on the morning of the 

 15th instant, a very lofty mountain, not previously discerned from 

 this point, though a European ( Mr. Bozzolo ) has been living on 

 the hill for more than 18 months. 



On the night of the 14th there was a thunderstorm with heavy 

 rain, and when the morning of the 15th broke, the mountain ranges 

 could be seen to an immense distance with great clearness. 



Looking in an easterly direction across the valley of the Perak 

 River towards the succession of ranges, which must lie near the 

 junction of Perak, Kelantan and Pahang, I noticed what appeared 

 to be a lofty mountain with a filmy cloud on its southern slope. 



Mr. Bozzolo, who was with me, thought there was no moun- 

 tain, only a cloud, but fortunately we had a powerful telescope and 

 binoculars and with their assistance an exceedingly lofty moun- 

 tain was distinctly visible at a distance that I guess to have been 

 about sixty miles. I immediately took the bearing of this moun- 

 tain and found it to be 102°, i.e., about 12° South of East. The 

 mountain has a wide uneven top with steep sides, which rose from a 

 thick bank of white cloud and through this cloud appeared three 

 or four black spots, evidently the rocky points of another lower 

 and nearer mountain or range, while the cloud shewed there was 

 a great distance between them and the more distant and far more 

 lofty mountain which first attracted my attention. 



At a rough guess, this mountain looked to me as if it might be 

 11,000 feet or 12,000 feet high, perhaps even more, for within a 

 radius of 25 miles there were many peaks between 6,000 feet and 

 7,000 feet to judge by. 



Within a very few minutes of first sighting the mountain it was 

 no longer visible, and even the cloud seemed to have merged in the 

 haze of the horizon, making it difficult to believe that we had really 



