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CHAP. 1.] BASS HAEBOTJR.—QUEDA. 55
Currents.—In the offing the currents generally set to the northward
during the south-west monsoon, and the southward during the north-east
monsoon.
QUEDA RIVER.—The entrance o£ this river is in lat. 6° 6' N.,
and at low water has a depth of 3 feet on its bar ; there are fishing stakes
on either side of the entrance, and a remarkable clump of trees is situated
on the right bank. Vessels drawing 8 feet, and having a pilot, can proceed
up to the river, which is about 70 yards wide, but with very sharp turn-
ings, to the town of Queda, 7 miles from the sea ; but it is necessary to
moor head and stern there. Inside the bar the depths vary from 2 to 5
fathoms. Provisions may be obtained at Queda.*
A small light is exhibited from a wooden structure at the river entrance
for the benefit of small craft trading to Penang.
There is anchorage in about 4 fathoms at 3 miles off Queda river, with
the entrance bearing E. by N. and Biinting island S.S.E.
Tides.—It is high water, full and change, at noon ; rise 9 feet.
Elephant mountain, 780 feet high, is an isolated and remarkable
object, situated 5 miles northward of Queda river entrance, and is a good
mark for making that river. It is well named, as it has the appearance of
an elephant kneeling, with its head to the southward. There is a smaller
hill to the northward of the Elephant.
ParliS river entrance is 20 miles to the northwaird of Queda river ;
coasting vessels anchor off there in 3 fathoms, south-westward of a group
of four islands named Pulo Panjang, Pulo Kuniet, Pulo Korap, Pulo
Brasmana, which lie near the main on a mud-flat, and with a haycock-
shaped mount bearing N.N.E. ; the mud-bank fronting the coast here is
very flat.
PULO SEGUNTUNG (Rat Island), a high rock, lies s.E.
10 miles from the south extreme of Pulo Tubah, Lankawi islands. There
are depths of 16 fathoms close to its north and east sides, and 19 fathoms
2 miles to the south-west of it.
Pulo Payer, lying 6 miles eastward from Pulo Seguntung, is high,
about a mile long, and 3 cables broad ; it is steep-to, with the exception of
part of the north-east side. At one mile south-west of the island there is
a o-fathoms patch, and at one mile from the north-west side there is another
patch of 5 fathoms.
* The province of Queda is bounded on the north by the Siamese territory of Ligor,
to the east by the Malay state of Patani, and to the south by the state of Perak. 'The
island of Penang formerly belonged to the state of Queda. Crawford, 1856.—Infor-
and Kestrel, 1880.
mation on river verified by H.M.S. Modeste, 1879 ;