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It indicates, however, the rising superiority of Pasei, which gave its 

 name to the whole country, while Sanmdra sank into insignificance. 

 The question remains how does Samudra come to be up the Pasei 

 river? If so, where is the old city of Pasei? Probably the river 

 visited by the Dutch functionary was only one of the rivers in the 

 country of Pasei, and the " Orang Pasei," in the many changes that 

 have occurred in all those countries on the East coast of Sumatra, 

 may have lost their capital, and retreated to the river of Samudra . 

 It would certainly be satisfactory to have this point cleared up one 

 way or the other. 



A Correction. 



Mr. W. H. Treacher points out the following error in the 

 Botanical Notes contributed by him to the Society and printed 

 in the last Number of this Journal : — 



"On page 60 of the third Number of the Journal, Mr. Murtox 

 " remarks that I have given two descriptions of the Jelutong, which 

 "appear to him diametrically opposed. A reference to page 57, 

 " however, will show that this is owing to a mistake of the printer. 

 ' : The notes on that page refer only to the Table, and not to my 

 " description of the Jelutong ." 



