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luxuriant forest. The soil is on the whole rich and 

 fertile. The country abounds with game, including 

 bison, sambur, deer, pea-fowl, &c., and the natives, 

 a pleasant, high-spirited race, are all keen sports- 

 men, seldom going abroad without a fowling-piece 

 and stock of ammunition. 



Veerajenderpett is the chief town or village of 

 the lowlands, its market supplying the wants of the 

 inhabitants of the surrounding district in food and 

 clothing. It promises to become a place of note, 

 having regard to the large number of European 

 planters settled down in its neighbourhood. 



The natives of Coorg are very well disposed 

 towards the English, whom they look upon as their 

 deliverers from the Mysoreans, who in former 

 times, under Hyder Ali and his son, used constantly 

 to be making warlike inroads upon their country, 

 slaughtering the inhabitants and carrying off their 

 cattle. In our wars with the Mysore, the Coorgs 

 rendered the British commanders important services. 



The annual rainfall of Coorg is very great, being 

 about 150 inches, occurring principally between the 

 ist of June and the 1st of October. 



The SHERVAROY HILLS are situated in the 

 centre of the Madras Presidency, being about equi- 

 distant from Madras and Beypore. The coffee 

 plant is said to have been first introduced upon 



