FIVE DAYS IN NANING. 
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I have little to add with respect to the physical features 
of the country over which I passed. There is a hot spring 
near Chirana Ptiteh, and another at Salankma in Rambau. 
We did not pass any tin mines, but tin has been procured 
near Tabo, and also near Chirdnfi Puteb/* 
The Rambau mountains appear to lie on the border of an 
extensive Alpine country, which does not anywhere near them 
attain to a similar height. As viewed from the southward, 
they form a group consisting of'three great elongated masses 
or chains, separated by broad and deep depressions. Each 
successive mountain approaches in its direction to a N.W.— 
S.E. line. The one nearest our territories is called Gunong 
Tamping. The r.ext, which is placed further back, and 
stretches to the north westward of the first, is called Gunong 
Bdr&ga; and the last, Gunong Datu, lies to the north westward 
of Beraga. The summits of the two first chains exhibit com¬ 
paratively small inequalities. Gunong Datu has a more 
peaked appearance, but it is impossible by viewing such, 
mountains from one side only to ascertain their absolute 
forms. Judging from the rocks of which the country at their 
base is composed, and from the account given of those found 
on the mountains by Malays who have ascended them, I be¬ 
lieve that they consist of rods of a granitic type, an opinion 
which we should almost have been justified in forming from 
the remarkable coincidence of their structure in the mass 
with that of the Pinang mountains, and the fact of all the 
other mountains of this part of the Peninsula that have been 
examined, proving to be granite. 
(To be Continued.) 
standing his practice in crossing swamps and walking along trunks of trees and 
sticks. 
* Newbold’s Account of the Straits Settlements vol. I p. 260. 
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