FIVE DAYS IN NANING. 
493 
In ascending BukitChingfrom the Naning side the soil is at 
first reddish, with laterite pebbles. It then becomes quartzose 
and presently whitish with a foliated siliceous clay, which 
continues to the summit, and a considerable way down the 
opposite side. It is occasionally quartzose. Towards the 
bottom of the Malacca side it again becomes reddish with 
laterite blocks. The low hill in front is also reddish with 
laterite. There is a good view of Ophir and the intervening 
country from the summit of Ching, A large tract of flat land 
covered with glam jungle, stretches from the loot of the Ching 
group in a direction between that of Mount Ophir and Malac¬ 
ca, and round the group towards the west. 
As an appendix to these notes, I shall, in a future numher, 
bring together some scattered remarks on Naning generally* 
which I have not yet taken occasion to introduce. 
