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filled with villages and towns, and gradually rising on 

 proceeding westward. Their agricultural products are 

 ragi, gram, millet, and cotton in the northern portion, 

 and sugar-cane and rice in the more irrigated districts 

 of the south. The second division is called the Malnad, 

 or hill-country, to the west, and is covered with magni- 

 ficent forests, watered by perennial streams, and pre- 

 senting very charming scenery, here and there relieved 

 by isolated massy rocks, rearing their crests to four or 

 five thousand feet above the sea level, in many a 

 fantastic form and peak. The sheltered slopes of 

 these hills have been selected by enterprising men 

 for coffee plantations, which have of late years con- 

 siderably increased in number and extent, pro- 

 ducing the finest quality of that produce, excepting 

 perhaps Mokha. 



This magnificent country rests on the Western 

 ghauts, communicating with the coast by narrow 

 passes. The aspect of the country, as throughout 

 India, undergoes a very material change with the 

 seasons. What is dry and parched during the months 

 of March, April, May, becomes green and productive 

 after the monsoon or trade winds, which here commence 

 early in June, and continue with occasional breaks 

 until the middle of September. The total population 

 of Mysore, according to the census of 1871, is about 



