amoiisj^st the poultry. ITeavy floods generally take 

 place abfvut once tn every five or six years. 



The highest ran<rcofthe thermometer is ftC*. 

 and very rarely 8?^ t!ie lowest being 09^ ; this 

 last vva-^ in clear_wealher at six in the morning.* 



As:, in iropicaWlimates the year is divided into 

 two seasons, viz, the wet and the dry, it foilows 

 that the otiier eight months fall under the deno- 

 mination of the wet ; not that rain constantly is 

 to be expected therein, but that it forms the pre- 

 dominant leamKC. The months of July, .August, 

 September, and October, are those in which the 

 greatest quantity of rain falls. 



The climate of Finang and Province Wellesley 

 is, as already stated, certainly inferior to that o* 

 either Malacca or Singapore. On the other hand 

 Vinano; posf^esses the advantages of superior 

 cheapnes^s in the necessaries ot life, and the ac- 

 eommotlatioh of stands of coaches for hire, not 

 only in the town, but over /the island, which con- 

 venience neither of the other settlements can 

 boa.sl of. 



The land revenue system of the Straits is un- 

 favourable to the agricultural interests* The Re- 

 gnfations may be thus summarily stated. 



When m ladividnal wishes to obtain a grant 

 of land from Government, and the difl'erent forms 

 of application have been gone through, he is bound 

 down to clear the tract within a lioMled time, the 

 period of which is arbitrarily fixed, and in the 

 event of his failing so to do, he is ejected, and the 

 land resumed by Government. 



' The ftulkstanceof the fore^orng re-marks is taken from t lie Plnang 

 Ga^ctU', tuit as tlie Hhule of iliv tnigmal pnper \vn» tint adapted la ihc 

 design q( tlm wurk. wich inComiatirtn nj wa,* reqinnte has tMjen thrown 

 Intii a uew forni, wjiereby the necetivitv uf ci>uve>iitg it iti detached t'mg' 

 mvuu was avoid eti, and an naity of etj'le pre»en?cd, 



