183S.] 



S/ceich cf the Malayan Penitmita, 



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Mines. Produce in piculs (I picul:=:133i-lbs, avoir.) 



Siingie ujong 7,000 



Perak 7,500 



Quedah 600 



Junk Ceylon 1,500 



PLingah 1,500 



Salangore, including Calang and 



Langkat 2,000 



Lukut (in Salangoi-e) 1,600 



States in the interior of Malacca... . 900 



Pahang , 1,000 



Kemaman and Tringaun 7,000 



Kalantan .3,000 



Pataui 1,000 



Total in piculs. .34,000 



The tin of the peninsula and the Eastern Islands (particularly those 

 cf Junk Ceylon, Lmgga and Banca, which may be styled the Eastern 

 Cassiterides) is diffused over a great geographical extent. Mr. Craw- 

 furd justly ob.serves th;it tin wherever found, has a limited geogi-a- 

 phical distribution ; but where it does exist it is always in great abund- 

 ance. The tin of the Indian Islands has, however, a much wider 

 range of distribution than that of any other country, being found in 

 considerable quanrity from 98° to 107" of east longitude, and from 

 8° to 3*^ of south latitude. Mr. Anderson since states that tin has 

 been discovered in considerable quantities much farther north, viz., in 

 the interior of Tavoy, in latitude 12° 40' north ; the mines are situated 

 at a place called Sakana, about four days journey from the city of 

 Tavoy. It is said that it exists as high as 14° north in Siam. 



The period of discovery of this metal in the peninsula cannot be 

 traced, but it is assuredly of ancient date. Part of Perak is said to be 

 the Temala, or land of tin, of Ptolemy. Tenia is the common Malay 

 term for the metal. Calang, another place noted for its mines, is sup- 

 posed to be the Malaion Colon of the same author, and the Malaya 

 Culam of the Hindus. Calang is likewise a Malay word for tin. That 

 cf Banca was only recently discovered, as Mr. Marsden informs us, in 

 1710, by the burning of a house. The ore of the Malay Peninsula is ex- 

 tremely pure, being that, which, from its alluvial origin, is caied stream 



