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of A. Mackenzie of the Pu3.au Bulang rubber estate, and was. 
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met "by Metre of Ayer Massing and f Du cane the estate 1 s 
manager. We went round the estate, just touching jungle 
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and leaving at 3.45 p.m* , were hack in Singapore late on 
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the same evening. 
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The state is on lowlying peat, about ten feet above 
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■k * 
high tide . This peat has been boree and found to be Z3C 
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12-20 fett thick , It seems to have been made entirely 
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by the decay .of timber, the rotting of which is inters 
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esting; the soil is patchy according to the stage of 
decay reached by the last rotted log which has fallen 
to the ground. The water runs off the land with some :■ 
difficulty in various directions and is a deep brown. 
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Sisal hemp and Furcraea have been planted, and the Furcrae 
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Furcraea cut out recently. The chief we ds are ferns, 
very largely ^ephrolepis, Pimbristylis pauciflora is 
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common both in the ditches and upon the surface of 
the ground. Physalis is a common weed. Sol&num nigrum 
is not very abundant, but a weed. A coarse pale yellow 
Composite is. not uncommon, < 
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It, is very 
easy to 
draw plants 
out of the 
soft peat and for 
the same 
reason 
the 
rubber trees 
interplanted among 
the sisal 
easily 
blow 
over,* 
The bulbils 
pt sisal 
in seed 
beds 
have grown 
in an interesting way: they will stand a patch of strong 
dark green plsntlets beside a patch of pale poor 
plantlets taking no ‘growth, according to the state of the 
Treaty surface, which is most uneven in composition, and 
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possibly best wher e logs have been burned.. 
Pas si flora foe t Ida is common, A C alii carp a. is common, 
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The secondary scrub by the factory is made up of 
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line aria and an ‘allied Rubiacea, together with Callicarpa 
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L an tana, Trema. At the egd e of the forest is-Cyr to¬ 
st achy s Lakka. 
