390 GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF BANKA. 
The other hills I shall mention only by name at present as they 
will recur in the mineraiogieal account. We observe* in the first 
place, the hill or mountain, Gunung Pdri-pdri, at the extreme west¬ 
ern point of the western peninsula; its foot runs off to form Tan- 
jong Genting. A few miles north of this: Gummg Penyabung, 
which forms a point of the same name. Further eastward the hills 
Gunung Pdssokk?i, Gunrntg Rabd and Gunung Mdnek forming an 
irregular interrupted range from north to south : then the hill Gu¬ 
nung Gdnten with a small appendage in the north called Gunung 
Sdpiding , and in the south, Gunung Krnwls running transversely 
through part of this peninsula. 
At the extreme north-east point stands the hill Gunung Mellalld 
from which, after a short interruption, the hill of Kl&bbsfc takes a 
course nearly north-west and south-east. A ridge of hills proceeds 
in this direction bounding the west side of Klabbet bay, but on ac¬ 
count of their distance from the present settlements they are but lit¬ 
tle known. The most conspicuous are Gunung Empdng , Gunung 
Puso, Gunung Tembdng, and Gunung Tempessu , besides the small¬ 
er hills near the eastern boundary of the district of Klabbet, Mendd - 
ru and Mclito. 
In the eastern peninsula the hilts preserve, upon the whole, the 
same course from north-west to south-east. The first, commencing 
in the north, is the hill Gunung Timing with several separate ap¬ 
pendages ; it runs off to form the point of tbi3 name—more west¬ 
ward, and stretching further to the south, follows Gunung Pdndjie , 
with different low peaks, pursuing the same direction. The hill 
Gunung Puwuk with two appendages runs off at point Tanjong Ra¬ 
ya. Gunung Bettung inclines more to the interior. Gunung Sdm- 
bong-giri, and several miles further south Gunung Keppu, situ¬ 
ated near the boundary of the south-east division of the island. Se¬ 
veral less considerable hills will be mentioned in the mineraiogieal 
account. 
The western peninsula is divided by the original inhabitants into 
the districts of Sungie Bidu, Mdmpdng, Tenga and Klabbet; these 
are bounded in the south by the district of Pesang under the Batin 
