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EASTERN GEOGRAPHY 



Larut is situated about midway between the river Krlan and 

 the rivor Perak* 



For about ihirty yean, Chinese miners have worked tlio exten- 

 di vo tin deposits of great richness at the huso of the high mountain 

 range called Gtinong Hijnu, and on each aide of n small river called 

 Sttngoi iArut, Tins place was found by the early pioneers to be 

 not only rich in tin, but most adviuitngettiisly situated in respect of 

 commercial intercourse with the British port of rinang, some sixty 

 rnileH dintant. Tin-deposits are rarely found so near the sea as in 

 Larut, which is under the immediate charge of on Assistant 

 Resident. 



Thai pntrf, thp principal town, and the largest place on the west coast, 

 Malacca nnt nxrpp" - -I, is tlio n-ntre of the mining industry* and is nliout 

 eight mile* from tin; Jwa*ooaKL It is the he.nl ■ouarter?i of the chief 

 departments of the State, cud U connected with K will a Kangsar by a 

 carriage- road, nud l»v a line of telegraph. Thr main nmd to the sea lnui 

 hitlnrto been from Thnipimg to Tvluk Kertang, mit n short lino of rail- 

 way, intended to oefflmoct Thaincng with Port Weld {eight inilen^ is now 

 completed, as well as a road from Lilnit to the Kriiui riwr, which will 

 open up communication by laml with Province WeLleshy. There is also 

 telegraphic communication with Pinang. 



Owing to the proximity of thn mountain! tn tit* 1 sea in thus part of Qm 

 PviiinitiiliL, tin- mil] frill ici tilrnt is heavier than olsuwhero along the Kiraits, 

 amounting m 18S4 to 165 inches. 



The Krian Basin — Krinn is an sgifonttHra] distric t adjoining 

 Province Wolleslcy, the seat of extensive sugar end rice cultivation, 

 it has a large ilalay population, consisting principally of settlers 

 from Pinang T Province Wellesley, and Kfdab. A good riumy 

 Chinese and Tumi I planters have also recently Bcitlorl there* 



5e.ls.ina, TO miles up the Krinn river, on a largo tributary of th tt 

 iianse, forms a tin-mining settlement h which s, few yeara ago wa« 

 more fluuriahing than at preHonr. It ih situated near the pi-tnri|.a 

 bifurcation of the Krinn. There !h a colony of Sound ran Malays 

 at SclAma, besides Chinese minors. 



Tfce r*rak Baeia,— Tlio FAruk, perhaps the largest, and cer- 

 tainly the most important, river on the west slope, drains not only 

 the ex ten hi vo valley of the State to which it gives its name* hut also 

 receives the drainage of the considerable Kinta district, compris- 

 ing together at least half the area of the State. It is navigahlu 

 for small steamers as far as Tcluk Anson, the capital of Lower 

 FGrnk, Its source is 3-iud to bo in the frontier mountain Jarobul 

 alurak, from which the Telupin mid Patani also take their rise. Its 

 whole length is about 250 miles. At first it flows in a south- 

 westerly direction towards the sea. receiving, from the west, the 



