. British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya; with a specially compiled map, numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs and a frontispiece in photogravure. house of the Resident Councillor of Malacca, with a mostattractive garden of very ancient date. The view fromthe hill is enchanting, whether one looks southward overthe orchards and villages to Gunong Ledang, called MountOphir, or westward to the hill which has been appropriatedby the Chinese as their fashionable burying-place; or overthe dark red roofs of Malacca town, across the rice-field
. British Malaya: an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya; with a specially compiled map, numerous illustrations reproduced from photographs and a frontispiece in photogravure. house of the Resident Councillor of Malacca, with a mostattractive garden of very ancient date. The view fromthe hill is enchanting, whether one looks southward overthe orchards and villages to Gunong Ledang, called MountOphir, or westward to the hill which has been appropriatedby the Chinese as their fashionable burying-place; or overthe dark red roofs of Malacca town, across the rice-fieldsand cocoanut groves to Cape Rachado in the along any road in Malacca and you can feast youreyes on a picture which is typical of cultivated Malaya atits best. On either hand there will be rice fields : emerald-green when newly planted, golden with ripe grain, orbrown when fallow. These are studded by topes of loftypalms shading a few brown huts. The distance is alwaysshut in by hills of a marvellous blue. But of all roadsthe most lovely is that which runs along the very edge ofthe coast, passing through palm groves and villages,with vistas of rice fields and blue hills on one side, and.
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