CONTENTS. XlU 



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4. — Statement showing the Rainfall for a Series of Ten Years in the 



District ... ... ... ... ..- ... ... ... vi 



5. — Statement showing Rainfall in certain places in the District of 



Nilagiria from Fasli Year 1870-71 to 1876-77 vii 



6. — Statement showing the Pric^es of Grain for a Series of Ten Years in 



the District of Nilagiris per Garce of 3,200 Madras Measures ... x 



7. — Statement sho-wing the Particulars of Cultivation, &c., for a Series 



of Ten Years ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... xi 



7.A. — Statement showing the Area under the principal Crops cultivated 



in Fasli 1285 xii 



8. — Statement showing the Collections under the several Heads of 



Revenue in the District of Nilagiris for a Series of Ten Years... ib. 



9. — Statement showing the Number and Value of Suits disposed of in 



the Civil and Revenue Courts for a Series of Ten Years ... xiii 



10. — Statement showing the Receipts and Expenditure of Local Funds 



under Act IV of 1871, for the Five Years ending 1875-76 ... xiv 



11. — Statement showing Receipts and Expenditui-e for Special Local 



Funds for the Five Years ending 1875-76 ... xvi 



12. — Statement showing the Progress of Education for a Series of Ten 



Years .. xvii 



13. — Deaths registered in the Rui-al Circle and Towns of the District 



of Nilagiris during each Month from the Year 1870 to 1877 ... xxii 



14. — Deaths registered among Europeans and Eurasians from different 



causes in the District of Nilagiris xxvii 



15-A. — Wellington — Statement of Rainfall at the Obsei'vatory, 1873- 



1876 xxviii 



15-B. — Wellington — Statement of Readings of Barometer at the Obser- 



vatory, 1873-1876 .. ... ... ... ... ... .. xxix 



15. C. — Wellington — Statement of Ozone Readings at the Observatory, 



1873-1876 XXX 



15-D. — Wellington — Statement of Readings of Thermometer at the 



Observatory, 1873-1876 xxxi 



16. — Expenditure on Public Works in the Nilagiri District during the 



17 Years from 1860-61 to 1876-77, a rupee being taken at two 



shillings ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... xxxiii 



16- A. — Detailed particulars of the Wellington Barracks in the Nilagiri 



District ... ... ... ... ... ... xxxiv 



16'B. — Detailed particulars of the Ootacamund Lawrence Asylums, 



Nilagiri District ... ... ... ... ... ... ... xxxvi 



Ig-C. — Rates of Wages and Cost of Materials in the Nilagiri District 



during the past quarter of a Century arranged in Triads, a rupee 



being taken at two shillings ... ... ... ... ... xl 



16-D. — Comparative Statement of the Rates for Labor, Carriage, and 



Work in Coimbatore and the Nilagiri Hills in the Year 1877 ... xli 



16-E.— Nature and Cost of Construction of various Edifices in the Nilagiri 



District xliv 



17.~A Topographical Description of the Neelaghery Mountains ... xlviii 

 18, — Copy of a letter dated 30th January 1819, to the Editor of the 



Government Gazette, published in the " Madras Coui-ier " of the 



23rd February 1819 lii 



19. — From Lieutenant Evaxs Macpherson, Superintendent, Neelgherry 



Road, to John Sdllivan, Esq., dated Neelgherry, 12th June 



1820 Iv 



20.— Geographical and Statistical Memoir of a Survey of the Neelgherry 



Mountains in the Province of Coimbatore made in 1821 under 



the superintendence of Captain B. S. Ward, Deputy Surveyor- 

 General ... ... X 



