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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
Asta—Perak and its Tin—The little state of Perak, upon the 
western shore of the peninsula of Malacca, is in a fair way to be- 
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mountains are separated by plains, the chief of which is traversed 
by the Soungi Perak, or river of silver, a fine stream some 150 
miles long, and navigable for Malay barks throughout most of its 
uropean ships of more than 500 or 600 tons cannot 
ascend beyond Dourian Sebatang, at which point the river turns 
westward toward the sea. 
e temperature is equable, rarely exceeding 95°, or sinking 
below 76°; the alternation from the wet season (September to 
February) to the dry producing no change upon the temperature. 
e mountain masses of Perak are granitoid. | Sedimentary 
rocks occur only in patches, but almost the entire surface of the 
plains iS covered with drift. The tin occurs in quartz veins in 
ren as Cassiterite. The encasing rock of these pee: 
case in Cornwall, is a porphyroid ranite, with large 
crystals of feldspar. si š : 
Island of Hainan—This large island is not salubrious. 
oil on the coast is marshy, and fever rages both in 
ashes and in the woods, The water contains much veg- 
ce and mineral impurity ; typhoons destroy the harvest before 
'S Tipe, and Cantonese Pirates make frequent descents upon the 
=e and seize the trading-junks of the merchants. The natives 
and KE appearance like other Chinese 
Th orrence by even the poorest boatmen of Canton. 
oy hae of Hoi-how, with about 12,000 inhabitants, has really 
is y r, b ut is exposed to typhoons and to the north wind. It 
Sra x nyer, and ships cannot approach within two miles of it. 
On th ee miles distant is Kiungchow, the capital of the island. 
center poa land opposite is the flourishing port of Pakhôi, the 
harbor ;. 2 large legitimate and larger contraband trade. Its 
from i 1S an excellent one, extensive, deep, and well protected 
(Ch. Labarthe, Rev. de Geog., Janv., 1884.) 
Geog ages of Indo-China—Dr. Neis (Bull. de la Soc. de la 
Mois, wh 3) recounts his adventures among the various tribes of 
Cochin eget the country to the north and east of French 
Late, and Thi and west of Anam. The Traos, Stieng, Shop, 
Sem to be loma are tribes of Mois, among which the Late 
i the most defenceless. They have no fire-arms, and 
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