CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Geographical position. — Confignration and aspect. — Hill Ranges and Peaks. — 

 Streams and Waterfalls.— Valleys. — Scenery. — Changes in features and 

 aspect Pages 1—10 



CHAPTER II. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION— (Corifinwe^). 



Length and Breadth. — Boundaries. — Area. — Divisions. — Stations. — Ghdts and 

 Hill Passes. — Roads.— Bungalows. — Chuttrums Pages 11—24 



CHAPTER III. 



POPULATION. 



Early notices. — Captain Ward's Report. — Major Ouchterlony's. — Quinquennial 

 return. — Census of 1871. — Distribution. — Houses. — Proportion of Sexes. — 

 Increase in number of Hill Tribes. — Incorrectness of Returns. — Population of 

 Villages. — Of Ndds. — Religion. — Castes. — Occupations. — Education. — General 

 remarks '. Pages 25— 34 



CHAPTER IV, 



PART I.— CLIMATE, METEOROLOGY, AND HEALTH. 



First notices of the climate. — Reports on the medical topography.— Climates — 

 Thermometrical and barometrical observations. — Doddabetta Observatory. — 

 Wellington Observatory. — Meteorological tables. — Temperature compared.- - 

 Winds. — Table of vrinds. — Hurricanes. — Effect of wind on barometer. — Rainfall. 

 — Average fall. — Extremes. — Rain-gauge stations. — Hygrometrical observa- 

 tions. — Vital statistics. — Comparative tables.- -Vaccination. — Results. — Special 

 reports, Ootacamaud— Wellington Pages 35— 45 



PART II.— THE PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL CLIMATE AND TOPO- 

 GRAPHY OF OOTACAMAND AND THE SURROUNDING PLATEAU 

 OF THE NILAGIRIS, TOGETHER WITH REMARKS ON PERSONAL 

 HYGIENE, FOR THE USE OF VISITORS, INVALIDS, &c. 



(By Surgeon-Major Whitton, m.b., b.a.. Civil Surgeon, Ootacamand.) 



Physical topography. — Elevation. — Climate. — Health. — Rainfall. — Temperature. 

 — Hygienic rules. — Diseases peculiar to residents and new-comers. — Lawrence 

 Asylums.— Climates of Coonoor and Kdtagiri Pages 46— 6a 



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