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f-'A S TKKS" i;i;qgrafhy. 



in which the Linggi nsfs t Tangga (1S00 fret), the Jellbti boundary, and 

 Ferhi'titian Kiin|niu ($000 feel), it the Sclihigor boundary. Mount 

 Bt-rcmbuu is, in some rutspvcta, the hey to this Statt<, ami, it may besahl, 

 to tlit* whole of thLfl part of the country. On the south side of this moon* 

 tain flows the Moor, and on tho ***t a feeder of the Paining river — Triaug, 

 Through • gap called Bukit PiLtun, between thin mountain ami GuuWg 

 Angsi, to tho south, is a pass leading to Sri Menanti and the other Xi-gi'i 

 fiviuhilan Mates. 



Poptilttiivitt I'rtxtucts, <fv.— The. Malay population is almost entirely 

 afCrirtiLtum], and is inoatlv found mmr tin- r- hhlh i : L in-, n- ,ii huivi. Tin- 

 whale population is pmhably ludow H.OOfl nonls. Sunset tijong lini 

 abundance of water, Bod its IntiJ is considered suitable for the cultivation 

 of entree, tocwi,. ciiK'tioun, ke. t wliieh Jim t-oin™ grown hoth on tins hi I la 

 and plniiiK, On the lowest ground, tapioca in now miltivated. Tin- mining 

 ia still carried on to a eonsidtf ruble extent by I ho Chine* at Ampangan, 

 nenr th? Reiiideuey,. nnd its neighbourhood, Thrse Chine*? miners in 

 Sim >i I 'j.mg, as in I jirut, liaro bean tin? real siucwa and waatth~prodn< ing 

 power (if (he eotthtry. 



A road now connect* Sereniban with Pfogkiilan Kfnipiui, th* newly- 

 opened j»ort twj- ihi- nionth of tin 1 Mnggi, and them ih regular voinmuni- 

 » uiim by steam 'launch between Malacca and the Liuggl Not Tar Jilwive 

 Pengkulan Kemposare lYrmatang I'li-str. the former inconvenient "port," 

 and Linggi villain. The ltomlency i* at B&fcmbao, about £2 mile* higher 

 up the country. Two Ufctfai nearer tho port in KAs.i„ the Custom*' station 

 at tins bridge over the Linggi rivt-r ; to whi.h phuv tin- -en mi i-, ur w;n 

 before thi* new road was made, navigable and CHtt for wmall boat* From 

 SSremlmii'a rood ho* beun tuada through Pantai UiSelangorou thn one Bide, 

 and IfalertCt on the other ; and upon thi* tho lirst hmtatnii-nt of tin- future 

 road up the Peninsula, St rem ben, and Suugci Ljotig generally, have a fine 

 central position. 



G<>VKf'i>i\rni,— The residential system waa introduced here shortly after 

 its adoption in I'erak and .SOlfingor (December 1S74), and with a' abort 

 break, at the time of the Pomk war, tliat form of government haa aineu 

 been peacefully tarried on iu the manner already described. 



2.— THE NKGIU SKMfelLAX STATES. 



Thcso small States, formerly a kind of confederacy of Xino StntPS* 

 of which the name alone now survives, occupy about 2000 equate 

 miles of the interior between the Protected States on tlio north, 

 Malacca on the west, Johor on the south, and Fahang on the east. 



This ccuifed>'ivii\v li'i-* KLtmi- Sir F. Weht*« treaty of 188.1 been 

 under liriliHh prolcetiun, anil road a linve been made connecting 

 Jobol and I'eiubriu respectively with Malacca^ 



Apart from Khmg t which has long 1 formed part of Seliug(»r, 

 and Sungci tjong, which, as n separate Protected State, ih now 

 on a diiferent footing, tiie Negri Sembllan contain a total populalinn 

 of not more than 30,000, mostly to be found in Rfoubuu and Sri 

 MfnuntL 



