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Singapore ou tlie owe aide, and Malaciia on tlie other ; the iutcrior of 
the country being covered for the most part by virj^in forest, only partially 
explored. Dunnt? the lajit twi'iity-tive years itlias been, to some extent, 
upinied lip under it^ pn\Heiit ruler. Mahatiija Ajhmiakeh. k.c.s.i,, «.c.iN!.a., 
the dci^ceudant of tijc i'ornicr hereditary Tt«inriigii;(>n«rs. 'l^hough^Juhor is 
not ]H>.sses.scd of tlicrich mi it end r'soiuvcs oi' nio.sL if tlio other States, 
yet by the seinirlty of its pitsiiimi in the close nciirlsbonrbyod of Singu- 
pure, iuu\ thi-ough its present Obict's just rule, and hi* i-are for lifo arid 
property, Joboi' han attained some pri>ininetiee, and exceptional prospe- 
rity aniongsl the Native States of the Pciiinsnla, 
Tow/Hi. —Thit capital is the town ol' Johor Bhdrn or Nvtr Johor, as dis- 
tinp;iiishetl from Jrifiur Ldnut or OidMf/ior, the former seat of tbcSiiltims 
of J[jhoi% which was sittiuted a few rallepi up liie wide estuarv' of the Jobor 
iiiver. The new town is a flourishing little place on the neare^st point 
of the inairdan 1 to Sing^apore, separated froni tiic blaud by the o!d 
t>trait,s and lyinir ahtmt 14 ihjles to tlie NfU'th-Ka-Ht ot Siji;j;apore city, in 
1^ Xorth. It cuntnins some ] 5,000 inhabitants, mostly Chiuesc, 
who are witldii iujinediiitc rcaeb ui Siugapon^ by a frequent service 
of couches. Tbere U no othei" settlement in Johor wUieh can be 
spoken of v^s a town ; but one or two popnlons and Nourishing villages 
are found ou the south bank of the large Kiver Mour, at Lmga and 
liukit Kt'[)OTj^. Puflanjj:, a little to the South of the River ^toar, is 
auotber iiuparmnt and very populous place. Like Johor Jihriru, it ia 
not situated up any river, as almost every other impurtant Malay settlemeut 
is throughout the Peniosnla^, but on the sea-yhiirc, which i.n here cxcep- 
l iouaily sandy and open. Padangbasa population of nearly ^*,00O, most- 
ly Javatjes€, scattered alou^ the coa-st, eugagcil in plautiug and liHidng. 
Li'Oga lic!4 about iO loilej;, and Bukit Kcpong still farther, up thi' 
River itoar. Tbere are in these, as in moiit places in this district, many 
Javanese and otber.s engaged in planting pcjiper, with some Chinese 
^andiier-plauttin;. In tli',* Nortii of Johur, the pivpulation is, however, 
cliicrty ihdayau, anil looks to Malacca as itj» capital. The scttlemirut at 
Kwi'ihi 8cgaiiiat is an open and wcil-p()]mlatcd district in thf^ iuttriur^ 
There are three tolerably lai'ge rivn-rs — the Moar, tbc Kudau 
and the Jobor— and several .Sioailcr ones, of which the Butu Pabat and the 
iSedili alone nec'l be named. The largetit of all. the Johor rivei's is the 
Moar ou the West euast, widi-b is. in fact, the most important atream 
in tliR S(,utti of the Peniusulu. Ie:< upper watci-^ have already been 
rcfo'i'cd to m treat jiig of Uie States kiujwn as the Negri Sembilan, among 
which it takes it.s rise, iliMving South-West from lirimbun [Bereiitl'iln). 
'j'he ]uipuk*ti{in chivdiy f>uutl on the aontberu side of the strL'am, iu 
Jidior proper, of whidi it was formerly the natural boundary. 
The oiber large rivers are the Kivvr Lmlauon the East coast, wldch 
forms the bound Jiry'Tv'tli i'a!iL;u;: and tlow.s dov.-.i from th;- Seg^mat Iliik ; 
and the riivcr Johor iu the South, which H.jws fnun ' Myunt Blumnt, 
aiiil <«pcnii out iuto a v "-l'^ « ;>t!iary gppusiic the eastern side ol" the 
island uf Siagaporf, 
Mouniaim, — The couu try is, as a whole, less mountainous than any 
