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this country it is almost impossible to get a view, except now and 

 then when the explorer comes on a Sakei clearing ; all the other 



parts of the hills are so densely clothed in forest that forty or fifty 

 yards is generally the range of view; from two or three clearing?', 

 however, I saw some very lofty hills about the source of the Batang 

 Padang, apparently the loftiest of these is one called Giinong liaja, 

 said to be one of the vertebra; of the back-bone range. It appeared 

 to be distant over twenty miles ; and Sakeis said it would take 

 three days to reach it, and another day to ascend. Where wo 

 passed the Bidor it was broken up into three streams, none of them 

 of any great size, I therefore have come to the conclusion that the 

 Bidor river does not drain any of the loftier hills in the interior ; 

 its drainage is confined to the smaller outlying spurs, and the rivers 

 in this part of the country, which have their rise in the true water- 

 shed of the peninsula, are, beginning from the West, first the Kinta 

 river, next the Kampar river, next the Batang Padang, next the 

 Songkei ; I do not speak of the Plus on the North-west, or the Slim 

 and Bernam on the South-east, as they belong to different system? 

 of drainage ; the Plus to the Upper Perak drainage, the Slim to the 

 Bernam drainage. Taking the four rivers mentioned above as the 

 principal arteries of the Lower Perak drainage the next set of 

 secondary streams are theEaya between the Kinta and the Kampar, 

 the Dipong and the Chenderiang between the Kampar and the 

 Batang Padang, and the lastly the Bidor between the Batang 

 Padang and the Songkei. 



In the foregoing paper I have endeavoured to give a general 

 idea of this interesting and little known section of the kingdom of 

 Perak, containing large deposits of minerals, only needing intelli- 

 gence and capital to work them to advantage, and also offering 

 exceptional advantages in the way of transport, soil and salubrious 

 climate to planters of coffee, tea, and other tropical produce. 



