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Canning's Seat, Lamb's Rock, and Dolphin's Nose, affording CH. XVIII, 

 access to the town of Coonoor for numerous tea and coffee 

 estates, the latter of which extend down the hill slopes towards 

 Mettapollium ; a third feeder opens access to the west and 

 south of the district in the neighbourhood of Kateri and Kola- 

 kambe, where lie most of the Nilagiri coffee estates.^ From 

 Kateri branches a feeder which taps Devashola and Meliir, 

 where are large cinchona estates ; and Kateri is now connected 

 with Ootacamand by a branch to Yellannalle, A line has been 

 traced connecting the Kimdas with Devashola, and hence with 

 Coonoor. A fourth feeder taps tea and coffee estates in the 

 vicinity of the Hulikal Driig. From Ootacamand runs a main 

 feeder (once famous, now but little used except by the Forest 

 Department), via the Segur Ghdt, almost due north towards 

 Mysore. From Ootacamand also branches the line to Ddvash61a 

 and Melur, and from it a third but very incomplete line runs 

 south-west towards Sisapara on the Kundas. There are a few 

 other connecting branches. It thus appears that very much 

 has been effected to open out the district by roads. But much 

 remains to be done before the Nilagiris can be said to be every- 

 where accessible. The lofty and in part promising western tract 

 called the Kundas, ^ with their western slopes, and the northern 

 crests of the district plateau between Kodandd and Neduwattam 

 may, without exaggeration, be said to be as regards communica- 

 tions in almost the same condition as when the Nilagiris 

 were first discovered. 



The following table of all the district roads, giving their cost, 

 traffic, length, and annual maintenance will be of service : — 



1 K6tagiri has also been recently placed in direct connection with the Railway 

 terminus at Mettapollium by a ghat road of 1 in 17 twenty miles long. 

 ^ Noi'th Kundas or Nidumale range. — Ed. 



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