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and Wellington, are resorted to each hot season by 

 large numbers of European families from the low 

 country, who here, within twenty-four hours' 

 journey of Madras (the railway now extending to 

 the very foot of the Ghaut), find a climate un- 

 surpassed, perhaps, in the world. 



Ootacamund is approached by four ghauts or 

 passes, the Coonoor, Kotagherry, Seegoor, and 

 Neddiwuttum or Goodaloor Ghauts ; the mountain 

 slopes adjacent to these approaches being covered 

 with coffee plantations on every side. Labour is 

 not over abundant, the climate being found rather 

 too cold and wet for the natives of the low countries, 

 but many advantages of soil and climate render 

 the district eminently suited for coffee cultivation, 

 which, as well as that of tea and cinchona, is carried 

 on successfully and on a large scale. Some of the 

 plantations are situated as much as 6000 feet above 

 the sea ; in fact, at a greater elevation than I have 

 seen coffee cultivated elsewhere. The port of ship- 

 ment is Calicut, to which the crops are conveyed a 

 considerable part of the distance by water. 



Munzerabad is the principal district in which 

 coffee-planting is carried on in Mysore; planta- 

 tions were here begun as early as thirty years ago. 

 The port of shipment is Mangalore. 



Coorg is a district some sixty miles in diameter, 

 situated above the Western Ghauts to the south of 



