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back verandahs, tenmmated by two square wiogs, 

 which comprise the sUepin^ apartments. The 

 drive up to this ^pot is exceedingly romantic— 

 A iipiral carriage road winds up the hill, and, at 

 each progressive step, fresh beauties attriict the 

 eye. Eminences, undulating above each other, 

 display broad patches either cleared for cultiva'- 

 tion, or shining in the bright green iivery of* 

 clove plantations, or yield a projipect of inviting 

 coolness hy the forest clumps with which they 

 are cheqnerrd. The only desideratum to render 

 the scene such as a painter would love to study, 

 or a poet to retreat to, is a sparkling stream 

 whose waters should glitter through the foliage 

 and break in murmurs on the ear as it rippled 

 through the borky dell 1 eneath the travellers ("eet. 



The troops are cantoned at some distance in- 

 land, althou-h the greater proportion of the officers 

 reside in the town for want of houseis in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the barracks. The Malay towa 

 IS on the left of the base of the beach, and is ge- 

 nerally called Cavipong Giam, on account of the 

 Glam treeii in its neiifhbuurhood. The Glam is a 

 species ol the Kat^oo puiih.l^ {mdaicuca-kucadcn- 

 dra L.; mi/rtus alba the tree, whose leaves 

 yield the well known medicinal oil called the 

 Ka^foo piilih , vulgarly con tracted into Cajeput. 



Singapore is to be looked upon more as a com- 

 mercidi than an agricultural i^ettlement, and it 

 therefore produces but little within itself. The 

 soil is, however, adapted for the growth of gam- 



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