ABOUT KIXTA, 



BY 



H. W. C. Leech, l.l.b., f.c.d, 



Part I. 



(Read at a Meeting of the Society, held on the 13/// October, 1879.; 



In the following paper, I propose giving a short description of 

 this most interesting and, to the outer world, almost unknown part 

 of the country. 



The Perak Eiver, the largest river on the western side of the 

 Malay Peninsula, flows nearly the whole length of the country, 

 taking its rise in the northern frontier and falling into the sea a 

 few miles North of the Bernam River, the southern boundary. 

 Nearly all its water is drawn from the tributaries on the eastern 

 (left) bank, and it is of the country drained by those tributaries 

 that I write. 



Beginning from the North, about 12 or 15 miles above Kwala 

 Kangsa, we have the mouth of the Plus. Prom native report, the 

 valley drained by this river is known to be very extensive, the soil 

 exceptionally good, and the mineral resources considerable ; tin, 

 which exists all over Perak, is worked there to a small extent by 

 the Malays, and gold is known to exist. A jungle path, with easy 

 gradients practicable for elephants and horned cattle, exists along 

 the valley of the Plus, across the w r ater shed of the peninsula into 

 Patain, and oxen have frequently been brought from there to Larut 



