PART III.— WELLINGTON. 



(Extracts from a Beport furnished hy Surgeon-Major W. H. Corbett, Army Medical 

 Department, in Medical charge of Convalescent Depot, to the Surgeon-General, 

 British Medical Service.) 



Description of the Hills. — Approacli from the plains. — Topography. — Geology. — 

 Botany, table productions and vegetation. — Seasons. — Meteorology. — Ozone. — 

 Climate, and its influence on health. — Places to be visited. — Period for visiting 

 the Hills. — Precautions to be taken. — Those who benefit. — Those who do not 

 benefit. — Barracks. — Cantonment. ^Sanitary condition. — The bazaar. — Water- 

 supply. — Commissariat supplies. — Amusements. — Duties of the troops. — Morta- 

 lity and sickness ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Pages 64 — 82 



CHAPTER V. 



GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



Early papers. — Geological Survey. — General descrijition. — Action of water — fresh 

 — marine. — Rock formation.— Granite absent. — Gneissose rocks — foliations. — 

 Minerals — iron — hornblendic gneiss. — Other varieties. — Landslips. — Intruded 

 rocks.— Dislocations. — Three systems of faults. — Disturbances. — Upheaval of 

 the ghdts. — Quartz veins. — Withering of rocks. — Laterite. — Kaolin. — Clays. — 

 Escarpments. — Kaity valley. — Kundas. — Alluvial. — Economic geology. — Lime- 

 stone. — Mr. King's note. — Gold.— South-East Wainad ... Pages 83—97 



CHAPTER VI. 



FLORA. 



(By Lieutenant- Colonel R. H. Beddome, M.S.C, Conservator of Forests, 

 Madras Presidency.) 



General remarks. — Botanical divisions of the Hills. — Deciduous forests on slopes 

 • — characteristic trees — valuable timbers. — Moist evergreen forests on slopes — 

 characteristic trees — timbers. — Woods of the plateau — characteristic trees — 

 timbers — ferns and mosses. — Grass-land of the plateau — characteristic trees and 

 plants (beautiful plants) of the Hills. — List of flowering plants — Dicotyledones 

 — Monocotyledones — Graminea;. — List of Ferns and Mosses — Cryptogams — 

 Jungermanniaceae — Bryaceae. — Lichenales. — Fungales. — Books of reference. — 

 Introduced plants Pages 98— 132 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE USEFUL PLANTS OF THE NILAGIRIS. 

 {By Surgeon-Major Bidie, m.b., Qovernment Museum, Madras.) 

 Introductory remarks. — Substances used as Food, &c. — pulses— cereals — roots 

 and tubers — fruits and seeds — greens — substances used in the preparation 

 of drinks — intoxicating substances — spices and condiments. — Substances 

 USED IN Manufactures — oils and seeds — dyes and tanning substances— fibres. 

 —Drugs Pages 133— 149 



CHAPTER VIII. 



ZOOLOGY. 



PART I.— Mammals, Birds and Flshes. 



{By Surgeon-Major G. Bidie, m.b., Supt. of the Central Museum, Madras.) 



General. -Mammals. — Birds. — Fishes. — Introduction of Fish from low country 

 and from England Pages 150— 170 



