4§i 
above P^ngk&laii Kompas ure Permatang P^ir, tlie former incottvenient 
" pOTt, '''' aiid Linggi village. TJie Kesidcncy is at Scremban, about 22 
miles higber u\i the country , Two miles nearer the port is Kilsa, the 
Custoniis' station at the bridge nvrr thcLiiifcgi lliver ; to whieh the stream 
ie, or was before {liin new road was inude^ siavigiibic and elem* for small 
boats. From Sernmban, roads have been umde to Paiitei (8 miles), and 
will, in another year, be completed, so as to cuimect Selfuigor on the 
one side, and Malacca on the other ; and with this first instalment of 
the future road up the Peninisula, S^rembau, and Simgei Ujong gener- 
ally, have a fine eentral position. 
Govermf/entf Sfc, — The residential system was introduced here shortly 
after its adoption in Perak and SelSn^^or (December. 1874), and with a 
short break, at the time oE the Perak war, that form of «fovernmeiit 
has since been pcarcfnlly carried on in the manner already described, 
Kcvcuuc for l8H:i, , 1117,145 
Expenditure for 188^3, ... 153,68ti. 
THE NfiGRI SfiMBlLAN STATES. 
These small States, formerly a kind of eonfederacy of Nine States, of 
which the name ah me now survives, occupy about 2,000 square miles 
of the interior of the Peninsula, between the Protected States on the 
North, Malacca on the West. Jobor on the South j and Pahang on the 
East. 
Apart from Klang (whieh has long formed part of S^lingor), Sungei 
Ujong (whirh, as a PrtJteetfd State, is now on a different footing), and 
S(?gi^mat and Niining (whieh have mtue reoently been incorporated with 
Moar and Malacca, respectively), the N^gri Serabihm contain a total 
population of not more than 30,000, mostly to be found in R&mbau and 
Sri Menanti, 
Originally there appear to have been four States, which were after- 
wards broken up and moditied as shown beloiv : — 
At present. 
Jeiebu. 
Johol. 
Inas 0/' JC'lei. 
Uhl Moar or Sri Mcnauti. 
Jrmpol. 
Rtmbau, 
(Si.\ States.) 
Of these six State;*, those of siiiHeient importunee tf) deserve special 
description arc Juk bn, Johol, Sri Mc-nanti and Hrmbau, 
Before entering ujfou details, ouc common feature of interest 
should bo.cnentioned . Thest States have apparently originated in the 
For merit/. 
Klang 
Sungei Ujong. 
Jelcbu. 
Johol, 
(Four States.' 
