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THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. [December i, 1881. 
A. 
R. 
p. 
T. P. 
26b A. T. Dew 
297 
1 
0 
34 
A. G. S. Gwatkin 
306 
1 
21 
„ 
76 
[Great Chesterford] Messrs. 
Gar- 
land & Horvey 
301 
0 
0 
„ 
59 
G. A. Dick 
252 
2 
22 
A. 
Government Reserve 
597 
0 
27 
T. P. 
32 
J. V. Brabazon - 
415 
2 
1 
,, 
31 
W. W. Bailey - 
310 
3 
21 
„ 
30 
T. J. Brabazon - 
299 
0 
12 
T. P. 
51 
Syed Mohamed - 
393 
2 
0 
29 
FKintail Estate] R. Liddelow 
339 
3 
17 
Clearing 1880-81 [100 
0 0] 
T. P. 
33 
J. M. Brabazon - 
372 
2 
32 
E. E. Abrahamson 
138 
2 
0 
Clearing 1831-82 [50 
0 0] 
T.P. 
62 
A. Hickling 
299 
3 
19 
61 
do. 
310 
3 
4 
Acreage blocked out October 1880 8,307 1 22 
Do. do. June 1881 2,451 0 37 
Total area. ..10,758 2 19 
Note. — The Muntahat Range adjoins the west side of 
Panti, and is now blocked out. Kotta Tinggi is a village 
on the Johore River, 7 miles alons the cart road from 
Gunong Panti and 50 miles by river from Johore town or 
Singapore. It has a resthouse. 
There are only two clearings here so far, but a 
good deal of forest is coming down this season. Most 
peculiar is the flat table-land, covering 1,200 acres, 
1,600 feet above the sea, and surrounded by preci- 
pices 200 feet high, which occupies the centre of this 
district. Mr. Watson tells us that ingress is only ob- 
tained easily at one point, and that the plateau is 
well watered and covered with grass. The Maharajah 
reserves this probably as the site of a future Sana- 
tariutn, the climate being as cool here as at points 
more than double the height above sea-level in Ceylon, 
apparently. 
The Muntahat district next to Panti has yet to be 
occupied ; but farther North, we have the Batu Pahat 
divisions which are highly favoured in the Batu river 
as a means of transport. On the side of this river, 
6 miles from the mouth, there is a store and wharf 
at a point only miles from tbe eatates ! It is no 
wonder therefore, that out of 10,000 acres blocked 
cut, there are already clearings aggregating 1,500 acres 
in this specially favoured division. The lists are as 
follows : — 
Estates on Gunong Batu Pahat, Johore. 
T. P, 64 G. R. Davies - - - 503 1' 2*4 
Clearing for coffee 1880-81[107 1 21] 
T. P. 37 [Lettybrook Estate], J. A. H. 
Drought - - - 288 0 0 
Clearing for coffee 1880-81 [111 0 0] 
T. P. 21c Capt. Bayley - - - 245 0 11 
„ 21d J. Weir - - • 263 1 8 
B. Government Reserve - - 176 3 8 
T.P. 47 [TheWabe ICstate], Hon. J. Shelford 306 2 36 
„ 56b Messrs. Jackson & Bishop- - 496 2 35 
Clearing 1879-80 [50 0 0J 
T. P. 56a Formosa Co., Ld. - - 494 l 11 
Clearing 1881-82 [98 2 3] 
Do. 1881-82 [92 0 32] 
T. P. 24 [Cauibus Estate] D. Knox - 244 2 32 
„ 70 [Stoke Rochfor.l Estate] (all this 
block is under cultivation) W. G. 
Gordon & H. B. Tumor - 319 0 0 
T. P. 49 [Woodcote Grove] Messrs. Garland 
& Hcrvov - - - 272 2 0 
Clearing 1881-82 [50 0 0] 
T. P. 65 J. Gittens - - 240 2 0 
Clearing 1881-82- [50 0 0] 
A. Government Reserve - - 461 2 26 
T. P. 50 M. Larken - - . 263 2 26 
„ 60 W. M. Reeves - - - 322 2 0 
„ 63 A. Hickling - - - 332 2 16 
„ 58 [Banang Estate], E. A. Watson - 630 1 2 
Clearing 1880-S1 [49 0 32] 
Total acreage blocked out on Gunongs Soga, Pengaumr, 
Banang and Senangin A5,861-3-35. 
Estates on Gunongs Chapal Enas Bedibi and Guonng 
Batu Pahat District. 
a. r. p. 
Johore Co., Ld. - - . 1 677 2 32 
Clearing 1880 - [320 0 11] 
T. P. 2 J. Thurburn - . -1,010 2 9 
31 C. C. N. Glass - - - 501 2 6 
C. Government Reserve - - 183 2 13 
Total acreage blocked out,. .3,399 1 26 
Note.— These estates are situated about 30 luiles from 
mouth of river. The relative positions of hills and river 
are only approximately shown iu plan. 
The Maharajah of Johore is to be congratulated on 
securing as settlers or proprietory taxpayers, so many 
men of enterprise, skill and capital. Ceylon's time of 
misfortune has proved a grand opportunity for the 
Malayan Settlements, and we cannot grudge the good 
men they have taken from us, much as we should 
like to have seen their euterprise and money, under 
the auspices of a fostering Government, devoted to 
the further development of Ceylon. We have still 
extensive reserves in this island calling for occu- 
pation ; but the present Administration are apparently 
bent on doing nothing save to cut down expenditure 
in the directions where it can least be spared. Mean- 
time, however, we are not so churlish as not to 
wish all success to Johore, which we must regard 
not so much as a rival to, as au offshoot from, our 
Ceylon Planting Eeterprise. 
THE GOTERNMENT MANUFACTURE 
OF CINCHONA ALKALOIDS IN INDIA. 
This mail has brought us the following communica- 
tion from the veteran Quinologist, Mr. John Eliot 
Howard, F. E. S. :— 
Lord's Meade, 30th September 1881. 
Dear Me. Ferguson, — The enclosed answer to a 
request that I would criticize the last Blue-book issued, 
was sent to the Indian Government some months 
ago. It will probably ajjpear in the next Blue-book, 
whenever that may come out. In the meantime it may 
be of interest to some of your readers. 
If you reprint it, it would ba well to do so verbatim. 
This is the only copy I have, and, if not used, should 
be returned to me, — Yours very truly, 
JOHN ELIOT HOWARD. 
Lord's Meade, Tottenham, June 21st, 1881. 
Mr Lord, —In reply to your letter of the 13th 
instant, I beg to transmit the following remarks on 
the collection of papers sent me for perusal: — 
1.— 1 observe that 190,798 lb, of dry bark of the 
species C. succirubra were made over to the Govern- 
ment Quinologist, by whom 3,750 lb. of febrifuge 
were manufactured from it. This is under 2 per cent 
of the alkaloid contents, and falls very far short of 
what is to be expected, if the bark were thoroughly 
exhausted. It may, perhaps, be as much as can be 
looked for from the rough process employed. In Mr. 
Moens' report for the year 1879, I read thus :— "fin the 
analytical laboratory of the medical department, by De 
Vrij's method (so called) out of 3,000 kilograms of 
diy bark, 56 kilograms of quinetum were prepared, less 
thaa 50 per cent of the alkaloid that was present 
in the bark." 
