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" Selawa Betina," " Gunong Batu Mukura," " Bukit Gapuh," " Ele- 

 phant Hill" or "Bukit Pudadu," "Gunong Chiinda,"" Bukit Pasei," 

 " Table Hill," Bukits " Tamiaug," " Tamsei," and " Gompang," and 

 " G-unong Abong." With one or two exceptions, these rise to a 

 height of from 7,000 to 11,000 feet. 



The country is fairly watered by a number of small rivers, 

 streams, and creeks, the majority and the more important of which 

 have their outlet on the North and East Coasts, those flowing 

 into the Indian Ocean being more or less insignificant. The 

 largest are the Kuala Acheh, Kuala Pasangan, Kuala Jambu Ayer, 

 Kuala Perlak, and Kuala Tamiaug, which all form deltas or lagoons 

 at their outlets. At ordinary times their depth is nothing to speak 

 of, but when heavy rains have fallen up-country the volume of 

 water they have to discharge is such that banjirs, or floods, ensue, 

 which doubtless first led the people to build their huts on piles. 

 At the mouths of these rivers one invariably finds a shallow bar, 

 with a high surf running over it, and, by choosing that part where 

 the least surf exists, you can best hit upon the entrance to the 

 river. Unfortunately this is otherwise puzzling to find, for with 

 every monsoon it varies its position, the entrance being at onetime 

 from the North, at another from the South, and as the land along the 

 East Coast is undergoing a gradual but continual upheaval, nume- 

 rous and sharp turnings of the rivers are formed. 



Of the Geology of the country, I can but speak in a general 

 way ; gold, tin, and iron are met with on the "West Coast, while 

 sulphur is plentiful in Pulau Way, and petroleum in Pasangan 

 and along the North Coast. 



Regarding its Botany, with my imperfect knowledge, I can 

 only assert that I noticed no strange trees, except the Ba-Tchut 

 or Batang Tchut, of the wood of which the Achinese make the 

 sheaths of their saheins ; it is a graceful tree, with dark green velvety 

 leaves, small white flowers, and a seed consisting of a long sharp- 

 pointed pod containing a cottony substance. A shrub growing 



