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seen there a far more imposing height than any I have yet beheld 

 in the Peninsula. 



All the other peaks and ranges were still wonderfully clear 

 and I immediately made a sketch of all I could see from the Plus 

 Valley to the limit of vision in the South. 



Thinking this sketch would interest the Straits Asiatic Society, 

 I have had a tracing made which I now enclose.* 



The tracing is not so successful as I had hoped it might be, but 

 still it gives an idea of the mountain ranges as I saw them, and I 

 trust I may yet be able to furnish you with some further and bet- 

 ter information regarding this considerable mountain which lies in 

 the direction of the mountain marked on the Asiatic Society's map 

 as Gunong Tahan, though that would appear to be more than 100 

 miles distant from Gunong Bubu. 



The point in that range called on the Society's map "Bukit 

 Chai " is about the position of Grunong Arang Para. 



The outline of the range which divides the Perak from the 

 Kinta Eiver ( the highest point of which is Gunong Meru ) has 

 been made, in the tracing I enclose, rather darker than that of the 

 more distant ranges. 



The highest ground between the Plus and Kinta valleys is not 

 more than 300 feet, and this is imperceptible from " The Hermitage," 

 so that the Kinta valley appears to come round the back of the 

 Meru range into the Plus valley. 



The range of hills which divides the head waters of those rivers 

 which drain into the Plus valley, and ultimately into the Perak Eiver, 

 is not very distant from the East Coast of the Peninsula and an 

 officer of this Government ( Mr. Caulfield ), who did not get 

 nearly to the sources of these rivers, told me he had seen the 

 waters of the China Sea from the point he did reach, this feeder 

 of the Perak Eiver stretching far to the "West and North, and 

 taking its rise in a very lofty range of mountains well within 

 sight of the East Coast of the Malay Peninsula. 



F. A. S. 

 Kuala Kangsa, 



2Ut April, 1884. 



* To be seen in the Library. [Ed.] 



