The Story of Early Juru
By Eugene Quah
June 2024 LEST WE FORGET
IN LATE APRIL 1845, James Richardson Logan, a Penang lawyer and ethnologist, visited Bukit Tengah and Juru. He noted that land bounded by the Prai and Juru rivers were heavily cultivated with paddy fields. The locals told him that “almost everywhere on this plain, in digging wells, they come, at a depth of a man’s height, to sea shells, and that seamud is the universal subsoil.” They believed that the sea formerly occupied the site of their paddy fields. Logan...
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Eugene Quah
is an independent researcher and writer who is working on a book tentatively called “Illustrated Guide to the North Coast of Penang”. He rediscovered the joys of writing after moving back to Penang from abroad.
