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ploring party is about to start from Kwala Kangsa to clear up 

 some of the very questions here referred to; of which it is 

 hoped our Society will receive an account when the expeclitiou 

 returns. A. M. S. 



Ascent of Bujang Malacca. 



Connected with the geography of Perak the following ac- 

 count of the important mountain in the Kanrpar district 

 called Bujang Malacca, and its surroundings, may he usefully 

 recorded. This is not one of the very numerous " untrodden 

 summits" of Perak ; for its western side has been selected for 

 the first experiment in Perak coffee-planting by Europeans. 

 On this very account special interest will be attached to the 

 following particulars, and also because of its central and com- 

 manding situation as a place of observation. 



It is to the Diary of Mr. Leech, the District officer, we are 

 again indebted for this interesting and precise information; as 

 well as to the Resident, Mr. Low, for bearing our Society 

 in mind when transmitting it. 



VI th January, 1879. 



u A stiff climb brought us to some caves within about 100 

 feet of the summit, and here we pitched our camp. The baro- 

 meter showed the height of this place to be 4200 feet above 

 the Kampar River. At an elevation of about 3500 feet, the 

 vegetation began to change rather markedly, and in a swampy 

 piece of ground we came on a large number of conifers, some 

 as much as 50 feet high and 18 inches in diameter. There 

 were two distinct species, one not unlike a Scotch fir ; the leaf 

 of the other w r as more like that of an acacia. 



" On the extreme summit above the cave in which we spent 

 the night, there was a most marked change in the appearance 

 of the vegetation, the ferns and mosses as well as the bushy 

 scrub of rhododendron and other similar plants, not omitting 

 the dwarf bamboo, reminded me very much of the vegetation 

 on the top of Mount Robinson ; many of the plants I recognis- 

 ed at once as the same, but as was natural to expect, consider- 

 ing the difference in height, — the one hill little over 400 the 

 other about 800 feet high, — many of the Mount Robinson plants 

 were absent, especially the long-stalked braken with crescent- 

 shaped tops and long sprays, of which we made our beds on 

 Mount Robinson and with which it was covered. 



18th January, 1879. 



u We were up before the sun this morning, not having had 

 very agreeable night, as it rained continuously aud a good de 



