. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. sin direct communication with the lower country of Pahang,besides tapping- a long stretch of land, both in Johor andPahang, useful for the cultivation of low country tropical pro-ducts. JOUBNEY ACBOSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 37 A town should be established at the junction of the Temen-lin and Pahang rivers, as a centre for the trade of the uppermetalliferous country, while the present road from KufdaLumpor ( the terminus of the Selangor railway ) to GintingBidei should be continued down the Pahang side of the mainrange to Bentong and P
. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. sin direct communication with the lower country of Pahang,besides tapping- a long stretch of land, both in Johor andPahang, useful for the cultivation of low country tropical pro-ducts. JOUBNEY ACBOSS THE MALAY PENINSULA. 37 A town should be established at the junction of the Temen-lin and Pahang rivers, as a centre for the trade of the uppermetalliferous country, while the present road from KufdaLumpor ( the terminus of the Selangor railway ) to GintingBidei should be continued down the Pahang side of the mainrange to Bentong and Pcnjum, or some nearer point on thePahang river. The cost of these roads would be insignificantin comparison with the advantages they would bring to Pahang,and in a lesser degree to Johor and Sglangor ; but if it werepossible to get the work done under the present regime, it maybe doubted whether those who now direct the affairs of Pahangwould be able to utilize their opportunities for the best interestsof the State. F. A. S WETTENHAM. Pahang, 10M May, SKETCH MAPQfajounw/ across tiu MalayJtoUfUuUiJbm fCBernam,in, ifo Sbtxita ofJMOaccas& ICrahciry in. tfa, chut* <rc* Seals <gff& fifiLu 10 Zo fc<QO THE OBJECT AND RESULTS OF A DUTCH EXPEDITIONINTO THE INTERIOR OF SUMATRA IN THE YEARS1877, 1878, AND 1879, BY M. A. L. VAN HASSELT. [The following paper has been translated from the French by Mr. R. , C. S. The original will be found in the second Volume of the Proceedingsof the Third International Geographical Congress (held at Venice in September1881), published by the Italian Geographical Society. No account, it is believed,has been published in English of the Dutch Mid-Sumatra Expedition and, in theabsence of an English version of their official reports, it is hoped that Mr. VanHasselt and his companions will not object to the publication of this translation,which has been undertaken unavoidably without their consent being first obtained. Ed.] A short tim
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