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 Mĕrawang is called Tanjong Kampong, evidently from a confusion with Tanjong Karang the next point. The point marked as Tanjong Měrawang in the charts is really Tanjong Tuas.
 * Tanjong Pagar. I presume this name was given on account of the Wharf. The old name of the place is Sělintar.
 * Tanjong Ru. "Ru" is the Casuarina littoria.
 * Tanjong Sĕlinsing. "Sĕlinsing" is a kind of fish about six inches long. It is also a jungle variety of the Pandanus.
 * Tanjong Teregeh. "Teregeh" I imagine to be a corruption of the native name of the place Tĕríta. "Těríta" is the small kind of cuttle fish. "Teregeh" is neither English nor Malay, as far as I know.
 * Tělok Baru. "Baru" is a species of Hibiscus, and the word is, I think, correctly written "baru" and not "bharu" (new).
 * Tělok Saga. "Saga" a kind of bean, Abrus peccatorius or Adenanthus pavonina.


 * Ang Mo Kio, lit., "The red-haired (i.e., European) bridge."
 * Toa Payoh. "Toa" is "big" and "Payoh" is the Chinese form of "Paya" the Malay word meaning a "swamp."
 * Chan Chu Kang, &c. Chan Chu Kang, Choa Chu Kang, &c., apparently mean the river (Kang) of the Chan Chu, the Choa Chu tribe, &c.

H. T. HAUGHTON.