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render the country untraversable '), and with a 

 general absence of facilities for the transport of 

 the crops to the coast ; where, also, the planter has 

 many other difficulties to encounter, all of which 

 of course tend to render property less valuable, and 

 the prospects of profit from the cultivation of the 

 soil less assured, the terms on which land is to be 

 obtained are, strange to say, far . more tedious and 

 complicated. Here application must be made to 

 the collector, the names of the streams, or paddy 

 fields, or other boundaries of the required land 

 being at the same time stated : in course of time 

 inquiries will be set on foot by the Revenue De- 

 partment as to the title of the land, and should all 

 be found to be satisfactory, it will eventually be 

 advertised in the Malabar Gazette, and subsequently 

 put up to auction at the nearest Cutcherry. The 

 upset price is the cost of survey, but there is an 



1 The original work contains the following note, written in 

 1865. In the monsoon of 1864, the tappals (letter-carriers) 

 were prevented from reaching Manantoddy for fourteen days 

 by the flooding of the river, the raft, or " pandy," having been 

 washed away, and all communication consequently with the 

 coast, ma Culputty, cut off. Later on in the same season 

 communication was again interrupted for several days by the 

 same cause. This will show how the Wynaad was situated 

 in regard to communication at that time ; since then no 

 doubt there have been improvements effected, though even up 

 to this time the district is far behind Ceylon in communica- 

 tions as well as in other particulars. 



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