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150 SINGAPORE STBAIT, [chap. ii.
New Johore (Tanjong Putri).—The town of New Johore
extends about 1^ miles along the north shore and contains 3,000 inhabitants.
It is situated about half way through the strait, close west of Tanjong Putri
in Johore ; the present Sultan is striving to bring it into importance,
having erected extensive saw mills there, for the purpose of cutting up the
timber as it is brought from the adjacent forests. The principal buildings
are the Istana, or palace of the Sultan, and the public offices, the latter
on a hill overlooking the town. Good roads communicate with the interior,
and there is telephonic communication with Singapore. At the town,
and also opposite on Singapore island, is a pier, and a ferry across the strait.
Ancliorage.—There is anchorage off the palace in 9^ fathoms, mud,
with the palace flagstafi bearing N. by W. ^ W. ; and the public offices
N.E. i E.
Siranglin harbour. — The eastern entrance of Old strait is
between Tanjong Changhi, and Tanjong Kopo on the Malay peninsula,
and is divided into two channels by Pulo Ubin. The coast inside Tanjong
-Changhi trends to the westward for about 1^ miles, when it recedes
forming a bay, 3 miles wide, named Sirangun harbour. About a mile
inside Tanjong Changhi is a small river, with a few bungalows and a
police station near it.
Several small rivers discharge themselves into Sirangun harbour, the
principal of which, the Sirangiin, is at its western extremity. About
1^ cables westward of the east point of the harbour, are two white rocks,
named Batu Putih, with 13 fathoms close to them. The depths in the
harbour are from
'7 to 14 fathoms, decreasing rather suddenly under
6 fathoms, so that caution is necessary when approaching the shore.
Sirangun island lies about one mile northward of the entrance of
Sirangun river, but the mud-bank which fronts all this part of the coast
of Singapore extends outside this island, leaving the channel between it
and the west end of Pulo Ubin barely half a mile broad.
Pulo Ubin or Oubin, is about 4 miles long, in a W. by N". and B. by S.
direction, and one mile broad. A shoal bank extends from its east end,
three-quarters of a mile in an easterly, and one mile in a south-easterly
direction, close to which are depths of 8 to 9 fathoms. Nearly half a
mile S.S.W. from its east end is a dangerous rock, named Papan, which
always shows, inside of which is the small islet Pulo Sikodo having a reef
extending 2 cables westward of it. A 3 -fathoms patch also lies about
2 cables off shore, southward of the saw mills and quarries, with 6 fathoms
between it and the shore. Westward of the south point of Pulo Ubin is a
small island, named Pulo Kitam, off the north-west extreme of which some
patches of reef extend half a mile in a north-west direction.