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Kuala Kangsar. 



The chief villages in this district are Padang Rengas 

 at the foot of the Taiping Hills; Sungei Siput, about half 

 way between Kuala Kangsar and Ipoh; and Parit on the 

 Perak river, about two days by boat from Kuala Kangsar, 

 and 14 or 15 miles by road from Batu Gajah. 



From Kuala Kangsar the road, after crossing the Perak 

 liver, turns south through Sungei Siput, Plang, and Che- 

 mor to Ipoh. The railway follows much the same line, but 

 makes a detour from Chemor through Tanjong Rambutan 

 before reaching Ipoh. 



At Kuala Kangsar there is the District Officer with an 

 Assistant District Officer in the Land Office, and another 

 Assistant at Parit; there is also a District Surveyor with 

 the usual subordinate staff. From Sungei Siput a new 

 road has been made up the valley of the Plus river : in this 

 direction there is good land available, but not much of it 

 has road frontage, while that towards the Upper Perak 

 road is somewhat hilly; near Kati, on the latter road, there 

 is good land with road frontage, and still more land to be 

 obtained on the east side of the road, but at some distance 

 from it. 



Across the river from Kuala Kangsar going down the 

 east bank, there is plenty of good land, but only water trans- 

 port is available as there are no roads, except one from 

 Parit to a point opposite to the Bruas road. A bridge at 

 Kuala Kangsar and a road down the east bank to Parit are 

 under consideration. 



In the sub-district of Bruas, which is under the Assis- 

 tant district Officer at Parit, the road, already mentioned, 

 from the Perak river, through Bruas to the Dindings ter- 

 ritory, opens up a large extent of good land, undulating and 

 carrying fine timber; a road from the Bruas to Sitiawan 

 in the Lower Perak district is under construction: it is said 

 to go through good planting country. There are several 

 flourishing estates near the Bruas, but the chief objection 

 of this district would seem to be the distance from the rail- 

 way. Taiping, the easiest to reach, is 34 miles away; and 

 Batu Gajah, the official centre of the Kinta district, is 30 

 miles distant. 



Parit itself, on the east bank of the Perak river, is 15 

 miles from Batu Gajah by road. 



South of Parit there is land but no roads at present, 

 and only a path joins the down river mukims with Tronoh, 



