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nite rock, being divided at llie top bya crag, bnt 

 re-uniting at abnut one foiii Lh of ihe fail.''Vhe 

 water b beautifully clear, aud is the stream which 

 supplies the town. At 7 a. the thermometer, 

 standing at 76* in tlie shade, fell to 73* on bein^ 

 plunged into the stream, 



At about five miles in a southerly direction 

 from the town, and at the foot of another moun- 

 tain, is situated a Chinese water mill for the pur^ 

 pose of grinding wheat. It consists of an over- 

 shot wheel, whose axle turns a horizontal cog- 

 wheel on either side. These wheels communi- 

 cate their motion to four wheels with mill stones 

 on one side, and to three similar ones on the 

 other. The Hour and bran are thence conveyed 

 to the hoppers, of which there are two sets on 

 each side, and the flour is thus passed through 

 fire muslin sieves, the hoppers being violently 

 shaken by communication with the overj^liot 

 wheel. In another part of the building, several 

 people are employed in picking- out the damaged 

 grains stones^ &e, from the wheat, previous to 

 its being passed through the niilL 



The cbmate of Finang is vastly inferior to that 

 of either -Malacca or Singapore, mid nearly, if not 

 quite, as oppressive as that of Madras. There is a 

 heaviness in the atmosphere, generated perhaps 

 by the undrained marshes, and luxuriant jungle, 

 to whicb the other two places are strangers, and 

 the principal advantage which it possesses is that 

 the hills liold out a remedy at hand for all the 

 maladies which the valley is liable to induce. 



Province W'ellesley is^ as lueviouslv stated, a 

 tract of land, three miles in depth, and extending 



