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In jungle or rubber forests the thus blackened 
surfaces merge into the surrounding gloom and it 
has been found necessary to demarcate the safe 
surface for traffic by planting white painted posts. 
To-day it is possible to motor from Penang to 
Singapore crossing by the F.M.S. Railway Ferry 
from Penang Island to Prai ; the road leads through 
typical Malayan scenery from Prai through Province 
Wellesley to Gunong Semanggol, practically the 
whole country being under padi (rice) cultivation, 
thence to Taiping the capital of Perak and over the 
pass to Kuala Kangsar the residence of His Highness 
the Sultan, crossing the pontoon bridge spanning 
the Perak River, which is 750 feet wide at this 
point, to Ipoh, the mining centre of Perak; thence 
through country of striking limestone cliffs at 
Gopeng, rubber estates, tin mines and virgin jungle 
till Kuala Lumpur, the Federal Capital, is reached. 
From thence the traveller proceeds over the 
Setul Pass to Seremban, the capital of Negri Sem- 
bilan and via the old-world town of Malacca into 
the Unfederated State of Johore; at Johore Bahru 
the Causeway is crossed and so to Singapore the 
total distance being 506 miles. 
Likewise the motorist may cross the Peninsula 
from west to east, starting from Port Swettenham 
and passing through Klang, a thriving centre of 
the rubber industry, to Kuala Lumpur; thence he 
has the alternative of two mountain roads crossing 
the main range, the one via Kuala Kubu over the 
Scmangko Pass (2,800 feet) to Raub, the other over 
Ginting Sempah (2,000 feet) to Benton g a mining 
village, and so on to Raub; thence to Benta, where, 
