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BMm (Suiigei Raya), Gopeiig (a large Chinese mining settlement),. 
Kampar, and Chenderiang, 
Berxam. 
The southernmost district the State it* that of the river 
Bcrnam, probably the largest river, m reganl to volume of water, to be 
found in the Peninsula, It is about two milc!^ wide at the mouth, and navi- 
gable for large steamers for many miles. Though draining a very dif- 
ferent district, its mouth is less than twenty miles from that of the Perak. 
Proceeding up the Bernani, almost due East, the chief pUcea (though 
none of them are of any she) are Saha/t, abmit 20 miles from the month ; 
T^^/uh- Kt/ filt, abtiut 7''^ miles from the sea, where the river is still about 120 
yards wide and very deep ; Chaitgkat Berianu 85 miles by river frimi the 
sea, a small rising ground planted with duriuu trees, anil oeenpicd by u 
colony of a few Malays. Above this sp it stretches an immense expanse 
of unhealthy swampy country for miles on both sides of the river : 
through this swamp the river B^niam winds^ down from OofhnHjufi, 
miles by river from the sea, where the land a^rain becomes hiijher. A 
scries of cannls or cuttings, shortening the navigation of the river, and 
making it available tor sieam4auiiehes, have rcrently been made from this 
point, through the Chaugkat Bertam swamp. The distance fur l)Qats is, 
it is computed, thus reduced from 11 I miles to about 50 miles. 
KwALA Si.iM, uboiit 1.'50 miles up the river, is the principal station 
and the Colleclorate of the district. It is situated at tlie bifurcation of 
tlie main stream ; above this the river divides into two branches of tsimilar 
size — ^thc river Slim rnnning down from tlie direction of Pt^rak in the 
North-East, and the river Bornam from SL'iruigor in the Sonlh-Mast. A 
hiily region caUcd Changkat Lela divitlcs these bronches. 
Ulu Slim lies about •%) miles higher, at the conHuenrc of the river Slim 
and the river Uilitiiig, It is tlescribcd as very picturesque — it might 
almost he in Switzerland/* From here there is an ovcrlainl path to the 
Perak waters (river Songkei) of no great distance \ and it is known that 
some of the affluents of the Pahaug river flowing into the GnlfofSiam 
hyve their source to the same mountains. In the Perak-Pahang 
lM>uiidary rises this Slim branch. The water-shed of the other great 
branch (thoHivcr Bernam) wliieh flows from the Soulli, is in a similar 
manner to he found at the Si'-h'ingor-Pahang boundary. At Utu Slim, 
land hm been sueeessfully openetl up by Knglish eotfce planters within 
the last few year p. 
The highest station on the B^raam river is Tanjong ^lalim, a fertile, 
well-eultivated station at the foot of the dividing range. Tbc main road 
to Selaugor and Beniam passes tlnongh Tatijong Malim. 
Ut'fieral Aitpecfn. 
hthahitmitit. — At Larut, and at the chief mining settlements in the 
interior— in tlie valleys of the Kinta, Batang Padang, &c.— the Chinese 
