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EASTERN 1 GEOGRAPHY. 



The greater part of Sid/mgor is an extremely level country, stretching 

 Inland about 30 mile* iu the south, and nearly 50 rutins in tlx* north, uml 

 as yet. but little cleared and vet) - thinly inhabited. In ha wide ventant it 

 presents a marked contrast to Perafc," ita riyera Hawing almost due. went 

 instead of hi nth ward. In the interior arc some Ipgh spurs thrown out 

 from the grctt mountain chain, especially between Viu ST-libigor and flu 

 Langnt, ami in the neighbourhood of Kuala Lumper, the present capital. 

 These spurs have an altitude of alwut 2000 fuet, with numerous high 

 ]M3;ik^ + where thev join the chain* reaching to tnore than 5000 fe*t. The 

 highest is 1 l»1cit Tengah (fl200 feet), in the (hlnong Kiili spur. 



At Geuting Bidci, 22 mile* uorth-ea.it of Kwala Lumpur, there tan UMI 

 into Taharig nt the, junction of two important spurs, one running dot 

 south behind Kwaht Lumpor, tho anureo of the river Kluig: tin- other 

 trending nwny inland, luavmg A valley which widens to about 10 or 12 

 miles, down which fluws the Tjlu Lniigat, Several of the highest peaks iu 

 this group rise to above 5000 feet. 



Further north, the river Se!tingor rises among even higher «nmmi ts in 

 tin? centnil chain, which is ham at its nearest point to the river Paining, 

 wrm«e tributaries flow down to the enst from the aauu" hills. The high^t 

 peaks after Rukit TSngali am j — (itlnong liujn, 5450 feet ; (»i"Uiong Cliirn- 

 heraK f $680 feet J , ihlnong Piehira*. GtJEu feet \ and liukit KslucIiiilh, 

 from which rises Sungei Ihioh, »outh of Sulangor. 



Ill S£ l:\ngor the chief towns are | — 



KtrtVa Lumpor is, and has been for many years, the centre of the tin- 

 mining of Mm country. In 1&70 it wns made the, capital, instead of Klang, 

 Its distance from thu nearest navigable waters (24 mitc*i) \b its priiieipnl 

 dxtwbtck ; hut it is well placed for inland communications, The track 

 distinctividv known aa the ** Pahang Koad" runs due east from Kwnln 



I. |-'H% whk-h will soon Ix? connected by mil with Klimg. A't'm-j, iIjc 



principal port of the country, 12 miles up the river, former wat of Go vern- 

 ment :uid Mo> lirr^t IJ.-sidency. It in situated near the sea, and many miles 

 from Mm vicinity nf the tin-mines at the foot of the moun tains, but in 

 favoured with r navigable river which, owing jwrhapa lo Kahvng island 

 lying acroHa ifci mouth, is without the almost invariable bar. StMttfpn; 

 lying at the mouth of the river Selangor* Hie river is shallow and 

 practicable only for Teasels of mnnll burden. The Dutch had formerly an 

 t-'HUhlhibtEiont at SSlAfl gor for the tunuopoly of thn tin ; and a stone fort of 

 their construction is still a conspicuous object, tuning formerly Wn,. next 

 to Malacca, the most fomdditMe stronghold in then water*. The nlhtr 

 town* of Sehtngor are Lattgat, Bandttr Kntiehing, Jttgm (where tit* Sultan 

 reddish and fj/K Lnntjttf, This latter lies more inland than any other 

 pari nf tli» Sl.ne. 



A l'-"h| Uri lb- roid h now complete from Ri-rAnang to flu Remain, 

 connecting Simgoi Ijoug with Pentk by means of a main road through the 

 whole length of Si'hlngor from Bouth to north. 



PcqMfalioik.— -?SklH nrttivn inhahitanM are Iwlievwl to be the descend unts 

 of a rolony of Bngis, from tloft« in Celclaw, who settled here and at Kwala 

 I'inggi under their Lfliief, Anm Passnrai, towards the cornnieniN'mi'ttt of 

 the last centwry. The population about ten years ngo had fallen away to 

 a minirnntn, iu r'anaeijiieni'ti of the incossant fpiamds and misrule of it.n 

 prirtr'cH, It his Ichii iiuj.Ii inrreast'd of late years, both hy Chinese act th>ra 

 and ininers t and by the immigration of Bialayt from h'sa pro"tp* , ''ous States 

 in Its neigh hourhoodt including not a few from Jambi and ottirr places in 

 the oast of Sumatra. 



