the arsenal and the barracks of the European 

 artillery, whilst the native troops are cantoned at 

 the distance of about 2 J miles to the westward 

 of the fort. 



The othfr public buildings are the hospital 

 for the native troops, the convict hospital. His 

 Majesty's jail, the Chinese poor house, and the 

 lunatic a!*yluni. Accardiugf to Dr. Ward, it 

 would appear that by fur the larger proportion of 

 the patients in the latter vrere Chinese, and the 

 diseases principally dementia,* the rest being af- 

 fected with niania and niononiaiiia. This i,s to 

 be naturally attributed to the prevalence of exces- 

 sive opium smoking amor)g>t this cla<s, as well 

 as, in some measure, to their inordmate love of 

 gaming. 



Pinang has long been celebrated for the exqui- 

 site beauty of its scenery. The infinite diversity 

 of hill and dale, here smiling in all the joyousness 

 of cultivation, there frowning with dark gigantic 

 forestS"fhe roads humming with life^ — the glas- 

 sy sea instinot with shipping the light sampan 

 as it glides from vessel to vessel— the islts, which 

 gem the ocean — and the more distant mount- 

 tains, which rear their crestfi in apparently in- 

 terminahle Micctss^ion on the Kedah coast to the 

 utintit=t verge of vijiion, all arrest the attention and 

 infuse a hallowed and sublime chain of ftelings 

 into tlie bosora. 



The following table of the heights of the dif- 

 ferent Pinurig hills is extracted from a letter in 

 the Pinang Gazette of August Ist 1829, which 

 was written, 1 believe by the late Dr, Ward of 

 the Madras Eiit;ibli>hment. 



• Ward's ContribuLioo*, &c. p, 25, 



