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112 SINGAPOEE STRAIT. [chap. ii.
for 3 cables to the Peninsular and Oriental jetties, which have extensive
coal stores and godowns behind them. The whole of these buildings are
on ground that was once a small island, but is now connected to Singapore
by a roadway.
These jetties have a frontage of 1^ cables in an easterly direction to
the entrance of a shoal bight named Sibet bay ; on the opposite side of
which, at about a cable to the eastward, is St. James hill, 70 feet high,
having a house and some trees on its summit, and is a beautiful feature in
the delightful scenery of this harbour. Mooring buoys are placed off the
jetties, and a dolphin at either end, to assist in securing steam A'essels when
coaling.
On the east side of St. James hill is a shoal bight named Blangah bay.
about a cable wide at its entrance. Prom tlie East point of this bay the
edge of the reef trends about N.E. by E., and for a distance of nearly a
•quarter of a mile is fronted by jetties and coal stores with godowns behind
them. These belong to Jardine and the Borneo Company.
The Tanjong Pagar Company have built a sea wall about 750 yards
long on the east side of their docks, extending to the extreme of Pagar
spit. Prom this extreme their wharves and docks extend a considerable
distance to the westvrard. The space between them and the Borneo
Company is being rapidly reclaimed, and increased wharf aecommodatioc
afforded.
Mount Paber is the name of a conspicuous range of hills which
rises boldly on the northern shore, about the middle part of New harbour.
The direction of the range is about north west and south-east, the highest
point, 357 feet, being towards its north-west end. Near the middle of the
range is a flagstafF, which, like that upon fort Canning hill, is crossed by
two yards, used for signalling the arrival of vessels from the westward, and
repeating the signals made from fort Canning. The height of the range
where the flagstaff stands is 803 feet, the same height as mount Serapong
on the opposite side of New harbour.
Eastward of mount Paber, behind the wharves and jetties, are several
small hills from 100 to 130 feet high.
Blayer point, the north-western limit of New harbour, is formed
of cliffs of a moderate elevation, and projects in a S.S.E. direction from
the low mangrove behind it to a rather sharp point. Prom this point
the coast trends in a north-westerly direction and is fringed with a white
beach named Pusir Panjang, or long beach, upon which, at a cable
from Blayer point, stands a board, denoting the harbour limit in this
direction.
Lots Wife is a rock about 6 feet above high water, lying immediately
off the pitch of Blayer point, about 50 yards inside the edge of the