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Special attention should be given to the land on the 
Jelai road, which branches off the Pilah-Tampin road near 
the 38th mile: this land is about 3 or 4 miles from the new 
railway; the nearest station would probably be Eoxupin. 
The area available between the Pahang road and the 
eastern boundary cannot easily be estimated, as the country 
is more or less unexplored; but roughly it may be put down 
at 250,000 acr< 
This land ues mainly in the Serting valley; it is flat 
land and would require some draining; it is intersected by 
the new railway line; the nearest station sites being at Ayer 
Hitam and Bahau, the latter of which is already connected 
with the Pahang road by a metalled road, 6 miles in length. 
Apart from padi, the principal native cultivation is 
coconuts: but little attention has yet been given to this 
district by rubber planters, and this will continue to he the 
case until the railway makes the land as conveniently ac- 
cessible as that in other parts of the State. 
PARANG. 
This State lies on the east side of the main range of 
mountains, and is bounded north by Kelantan and Tring- 
ganu ; east by the China Sea ; west and sontl^ by the West- 
ern States of the Federation and Johore. 
The area of the State is estimated at 14,000 square 
miles, or 8,960,000 square acres: hardly one per cent, of 
this area is at present occupied. Communication from the 
western States is maintained by a metalled road from 
Kuala Kuhn on the Federated Malay States Railway line 
to Ranh, a distance of 42 miles; this road crosses the main 
range at Giraong Semangko at a height of about 3,000 ft. 
A motor car service connected with the railway is maintain- 
ed once each way daily carrying mails and 1st class pas- 
sengers; a motor bus for goods and 3rd class passengers 
runs three times a week. The journey from Kuala Kuhn to 
Raub can also be made by gharry, the cost being $12 for the 
trip; wdiile heavy goods are generally forwarded by bullock 
cart at a cost of 20 cents per mile. 
Communication with the east coast is by steamer from 
Singapore; in the south-west monsoon a steamer of sorts 
runs almost every day to Kuantan, stopping for a brief 
space off Kuala Pahang— the port of Pekan; but in the 
north-east monsoon communication is less frequent, and it 
