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customs of the past?" .He tells me, lie was the first settler in Slim, 

 that the Slim river is larger and longer than the Bernam river, 

 and that it rises in a mountain called G-unong Jeransang, the other 

 side of which is Pahang territory, and from that side rises a stream 

 called Sungei Bctoh, the probable source of the Pahang river, or, at 

 any rate, a tributary of that river. 



Toh Sampuh says Sungei Bil falls into the Slim river below 

 Tanjong Blit, and that it is on both sides Perak territory ; that 

 originally the Bernam river was the boundary between Pcrak and 

 Selahgor, later, the Berang river, a tributary of the Bernam, and 

 later still, a mountain between the rivers Bil and Berang, called 

 Changkat Lela ; the watershed of the upper Bernam forming the 

 boundary from the border of Pahang to the Kwala Slim, and from 

 that point the Bernam river itself is the boundary to the sea, 

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