The great tree, or Setomian, of Pinang bas 

 been so often described that a notice of it here 

 would appear unnecessary, were it not unpardon- 

 able to omit at least a passing allusion to it. This 

 natural produdion grows upon a steep acclivity 

 oti tbe side of one of the mountciins, and measures 

 37 feet in girtli at the base» towering upwards to 

 the height of one hundred and twenty one feet 

 before it throws out a single branch. 



Another natural curiosity is the waterfall, or 

 rather waterfalls, of Pinang. for there are two, 

 dit^tinguished respectively by the appellations of 

 the great, and the iesser, falls. The former of thcste 

 1 bad no opportunity of seeing: it is remarkable 

 principally. I believe, for the scenery around 

 it rather than the volume of water being consi- 

 derably greater than that of the other. A me- 

 lancholy interest is attached to it on account of an 

 officer f Lieut. Brooshooft of the 35th M. f.) 

 having been dashed down it. 



The other fall lies about four miles to the souths 

 ward of tbe town and amply repays the labor of 

 avi*it. The tourist crosses the stream at the 

 foot of tKe mountain by means of a tree thrown 

 across as a bridge. After ascending the hill for 

 a considerable distance, the narrow and rugged 

 pathway leads directly to the foot of the fall, and 

 the appearance of it is picturesque and striking 

 in the extreme. Enveloped in the bosom of a 

 deep jungle, only about seventy or eighty feet of 

 the torrent is visible, the upper part of which is 

 partially broktiii into three successive leaps. The 

 main fall, which is .somewhere about fifty feet, 

 throws itself in foain over the face of a dark gra- 



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