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of tilings is, of course, to raise new plantations from intro- 
duced seed, and to avoid creating them from seed grown in the 
Settlement, and where this has been already done, a plant 
seems to grow with all its usual vigour. 
55. The area of private forest land has been computed at 
about 5,000 acres scattered over the island in small holdings, 
and chiefly as firewood reserves in connection with gambler 
and pepper plantations. The largest private forest I have 
seen -is situated a little to the west of Mount Faber range, 
and is owned by a Chinaman. This plantation is believed to 
be about 500 acres in extent, but contains only a small pro- 
portion of good timber. Owners of private forest in districts, 
where the Government forest has disappeared and plundering 
stopped in consequence, make good returns by the sale of 
timber, but such forests being of very limited extent, and no 
provision being made for reproduction, they will soon dis- 
appear. 
MALACCA. 
56. Malacca is situated on the western coast of the 
Malayan Peninsula, at a distance of about 120 miles from 
Singapore, and has an area of 659 square miles. Its greatest 
length is 42 miles, and breadth from 8 to 21 miles. The chief 
town called Malacca is in 2.11" North Latitude, and 102.14 
East Longitude. 
57. For administrative and general purposes, it is divided 
into 34 districts, which, like those of Singapore are not properly 
defined. The number of acres under cultivation may be 
roughly stated at about 150,000, the chief agricultural products 
being tapioca and padi ; quantity not known. 
08 . Malacca may be ranked among the flat countries of 
the Peninsula, broken only here and there by bold ranges of 
hills. The chief hills are the Bukit Punggor range at Nyalas, 
which forms a spur of the Ophir group, and which dips into the 
side of the forest reserve of J os ; the Panclior range which occu- 
pies a position in the centre of the territory and has a length 
of about three miles; the Ram ban mountains which form part 
of the north* boundary ; the Bo kit Bruang range near the town 
of Malacca, which has a length of about three miles, and is 
somewhat curvilinear in shape ; there are also smaller hills at 
Sungei Tcbong and Pulau Sebang. The average height of 
which may be computed at 200 feet. 
59. The chief rivers which traverse the territory are as 
under : feungei Batang Malacca, which passes through the 
centre of the Settlement and town of Malacca, and has 
a length of 35 miles. The Duyong river, which joins the sea 
point about three miles to the south of the latter, and is about 
eight miles in length. The Kesang river, which separates 
the territory of Malacca from that of Muar, takes its rise 
in the Bukit Singgeh range, and has a length of about 27 
nnles. ifie Chohong River, which rises from the Mount Ophir 
range. The Linggi river, which separates the territory on 
the west sides from that of Sungei Ujong, and is about seven 
miles in length ; this river differs from most of the others in 
being navigable for. boats for nearly its whole length There 
are numerous smaller streams along the coast, but none that 
call tor particular mention. 
60. Malacca is upon the whole well provided with roads. 
There are about ldo miles of first class, and 80 miles of 
second class roads m the Settlement. 
Private Forest. 
Topographical Features. 
