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with numerous high peaks^ where they join the chain, reaching to moro 
than 5,000 feet. The highest is Bukit T^ngah, of 6,200 feet, in the 
tJlinoiig Kali spur. 
At 'Gintiiif^ Biclei, 22 miles North- East of KwAla Lumpor, there is 
a paaa into Piiliaiig tit the junction of two important spurs, one nin- 
nhifr due South behitid K.wfila Lurupor, the source of the river Klang ; 
the other trending awuy inlaml, leaving a valley whit'h widens to about 
10 or 12 miles, down wliiuh flows tliP Vln Langat. Several of the high- 
est peaks iu this jrroup rise to above 5,00f>reel,. 
Further ^ortti, tSie river Sclilngor rises among eveu higher summits in 
the central chain, which is here at its nearest point to the river Pahang, of 
which the tributaries flow down to the East from the same hills. The 
highest peaks after Bukit Tungah are : — Gunong Kaja^ 5,450 feet ; 
Gunong Chimberas, '^,050 feet ^ tiu*iong F'echeras, 5,6o0 feet ; and Bukit 
Kanching, from which rise^ Sungci Bulfi (.South of Srhingor) and which 
h one of the few hills thrown forward into the plain. 
Boumiark$.^^iiUmgoT is separated from P^rak by the B^rnam river, 
wliich forms its nortijcrn boundary. Its extent along the coast is about 
100 milce, as fur as the river Kipali to the South {since the 1877 boundary 
was fixecl), and then by a line running to the Korth and East as far as 
the hills 'which divide it from Jelcbu, 
In Srl^lngor, the following arc the principal plice*, all of the size of 
villages rather thau towns, though the new capital and Itcsidency town 
i gro^^TUK fa.st 
Kfcdia Ltimpor is. anil has been for many years, the eeatre of the tin- 
mining of the country. In 1879 it was made the capital, instead of Klang, 
Its distance from the nearest navigable waters (2-1 -miles) is its principal 
drawback ; but it is well placed for inland coramunications, and a railway 
is to be constructed to connect it with Klang. 
Kiaiiff, the principal port of the eountry, VI miles up the river, 
was the former scat of Government and the hrst Residency. It 
is situated near the sea, and many miles from the vicinity of the tin- 
mines at the foot of the mountains, but is favoured with a navigable 
river which, owing perhaps to the island Kalang lying across its mouth, 
is without the almost invariable bar. 
Seldngor, 
S?}dn(jar^ lying at the mouth of the river Selangor. The river is shallow 
and practicable only for vessels of small bniden. The 1 hitch had formerly 
an establisilinient at Srhingor for the monopoly of the tin ; and a stone fort 
of their construction is still a eonspiciious object, having furnierly beeUj 
next to Malacca, the most important construction of the kijid in theee 
watei^. 
Langat. 
The other towns of SSUngor are Lmigalj Bamhr Kanching ^ Jugra 
