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Kuala Kangsar. 
The chief villages in this district are Padang Rengas 
at the foot of the Taiping Hills; Sungei Sipnt, about half 
way between Kuala Kangsar and Ipoh; and Parit on the 
Perak river, about two days by boat from Kuala Kangsar, 
and 14 or 15 miles by road from Batu (rajah. 
From Kuala Kangsar the road, after crossing the Perak 
river, turns south through Sungei Siput, Plang, and Che- 
mor to Ipoh. The railway follows much the same line, but 
makes a detour from Chpmor through Tanjong Rambutau 
before reaching Ipoh. 
At Kuala Kangsar there is the District Officer with an 
Assistant District Officer in the Laud Office, and another 
Assistant at Parit; there is also a District Surveyor with 
the usual subordinate staff. From Sungei Siput a new 
road has been made up the valley of the Plus river: in this 
direction there is good land available, but not much of it 
has road frontage, while that towards the Upper Perak 
road is somewhat hilly; near Kati, on the latter road, there 
is good land with road frontage, and still more land to be 
obtained on the east side of the road, but at some distance 
from it. 
Across the river from Kuala Kangsar going down the 
east bank, there is plenty of good land, but only water trans- 
port is available as there are no roads, except one from 
Parit to a point opposite to the Bruas road. A bridge at 
Kuala Kangsar and a road down the east bank to Parit are 
under consideration. 
In the sub-district of Bruas, which is under the Assis- 
tant district Officer at Parit, the road, already mentioned, 
from the Perak river, through Bruas to the Dindings ter- 
ritory, opens up a large extent of good land, undulating and 
carrying fine timber; a road from the Bruas to Sitiawan 
in the Lower Perak district is under construction : it is said 
to go through good planting country. There are several 
flourishing estates near the Bruas, but the chief objection 
of this district would seem to be the distance from the rail- 
way. Taiping, the easiest to reach, is 34 miles away ; and 
Batu Gajah, the official centre of the Kinta district, is 30 
miles distant. 
Parit itself, on the east bank of the Perak river, is 15 
miles from Batu Gajah by road. 
South of Parit there is ’land but no roads at present, 
and only a path joins the down river mukims with Tronoh, 
