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India Steam Navigation Co., and smaller local boats; the 
mail steamers of the British India Steam Navigation Co 
from Madras to Singapore, call every alternate r nclay, and 
other ocean-going steamers at uncertain intervals. 
The area of the State is estimated at 3,200 square miles, 
or 2,048,000 acres. At the end of 1907, 414,342 acres were 
held under permanent titles, of which 338,805 acres had 
been alienated for planting. 
ITlu Selangor. 
This is the most northerly of the inland districts, hav- 
ing Kuala Selangor on the west, the main mountain range 
on the east, and the Kuala Lumpur district on the south. 
The railway and the road follow the same line through this 
district: leaving Tanjong Malim, they pass through Kuala 
Kuhn, the head-quarters of the district, and the starting 
point of the Pahang trunk road; thence by way of Rasa and 
Sereudah to Rawang: here the railway turns to the west, 
through Kuang and Kepong, to avoid the hills, meeting the 
road again at Kuala Lumpur. The principal towns are those 
already mentioned ; at Kuala Kiibu— - the head-quarters— 
are the Land Office and the District Survey Office. Though 
tin has hitherto been the principal asset of the district, and 
is responsible for the rise of such towns as Serendah and 
Rawang, there is still room for planters, and some 100,000 
acres of land is said to he available: most of this will be 
found on the west of the road, as the land on the east, 
especially north of the Pahang road, is much broken up by 
bills, and in the valleys between those considerable mining 
is carried on. Near Batang Kali, on that side of the road, 
a fair amount of land might be found, and one or two 
estates have alreadv been started in this neighbourhood. 
Near Serendah and 'phi Yam, access can be obtained with- 
out much difficulty to the main road, and a part of this land 
is also intersected by the road from Rawang to Kuala 
Selangor, which gives access to some promising sites. A 
new road is projected from Rantau Panjang on the Ra- 
wang- Kuala Selangor road to Iverling a station on the 
railway, a few miles north of Kuala Kiibu — this will open 
up a very considerable area. All this land is said to be 
fairly high and to require very little drainage. 
Kuala Lumpur. 
The Land Office is in charge of the Collector of Land 
Revenue, who is also registrar of Titles for the State; the 
Superintendent of Revenue Surveys has his head office 
