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Special attention should be given to the land on the 

 Jelai road, which branches off the Pilah-Tampin road near 

 the 38th mile : this land is about 3 or 4 miles from the new 

 railway; the nearest station would probably be Roinpin. 



The area available between the Paliang road and the 

 eastern boundary cannot easily be estimated, as the country 

 is more or less unexplored; but roughly it may be put down 

 at 250,000 acres. 



This land lies mainly in the Serting valley; it is flat 

 land and would require some draining; it is intersected by 

 the new railway line, the nearest station sites being at Ayer 

 Hitam and Bahau, the latter of which is already connected 

 with the Pahang road by a metalled road, 6 miles in length. 



Apart from padi, the principal native cultivation is 

 coconuts: but little attention has yet been given to this 

 district by rubber planters, and this will continue to be the 

 case until the railway makes the land as conveniently ac- 

 cessible as that in other parts of the State. 



PAHANG. 



This State lies on the east side of the main range of 

 mountains, and is bounded north by Kelantan and Tring- 

 ganu ; east by the China Sea ; west and south by the West- 

 ern States of the Federation and Johore. 



The area of the State is estimated at 14,000 square 

 miles, or 8,960,000 square acres: hardly one per cent, of 

 this area is at present occupied. Communication from the 

 western States is maintained by a metalled road from 

 Kuala Kubu on the Federated Malay States Railway line 

 to Raub, a distance of 42 miles ; this road crosses the main 

 range at Gunong Semangko at a height of about 3,000 ft. 

 A motor car service connected with the railway is maintain- 

 ed once each way daily carrying mails and 1st class pas- 

 sengers; a motor bus for goods and 3rd class passengers 

 runs three times a week. The journey from Kuala Kubu to 

 Raub can also be made by gharry, the cost being $12 for the 

 trip; while heavy goods are generally forwarded by bullock 

 eart at a cost of 20 cents per mile. 



Communication with the east coast is by steamer from 

 Singapore; in the south-west monsoon a steamer of sorts 

 runs almost every day to Kuantan, stopping for a brief 

 space off Kuala Pahang — the port of Pekan ; but in the 

 north-east monsoon communication is less frequent, and it 



