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northward to Cbittore, eighteen miles diiiant from the fpot he 



left, nearly oppofite to Vellore. After a march of about fifteen 



miles he chained the pafs of Muglee^ on the eaftern Ghauts^ and Ascent of 



Mug LEE. 

 in fix hours went through it unmolefted, fo little did Tippoo 



fufpcvff the route his lordlliip would take. All the heavy artil- 

 lery was got up with eafe ; the roads were fo good that the bul- 

 locks were not unyoked ; the troops affifted with the drag- 

 ropes, and the docile elephants affifted, by pufliing with their 

 heads the heavy guns from behind. The army encamped a 

 little beyond the pafs at Palimnare^ having furmounted the 

 ftupendous rampart toward the Canmticy and gained the level 

 of the table-land, which is fupported as if by buttreffes on every 

 lide. That part between the parallels of Chittore and Da- 

 rampoory, in the Barah-mahal^ is reckoned about three thou- 

 fand feet above the low land of the Caniatic. The nature 

 of the Ghauts^ and their courfe, I have, in vol. i. p. p. 87, 

 88, 89, before noted. The Myfore, the fcene of two years 

 glorious but arduous adventure, was entered about four m.iles 

 beyond Falimnare. From thence, for the fpace of about 

 forty miles, the march was nearly weft. At Color., forty- Colar. 

 three miles from Bangalore, is the Maufoleum of Ayder All''?, 

 father, Nadim SaeO. Ayder was born at Deonnelli, a fmall for- 

 trefs, not far to the north - weft of Colar, which, with a 

 certain portion of land, was granted in fief to Nadim by the 

 famous Nizam ulMuliic^. It probably was built by his fon, 

 who by the elegance and extent of this pile, has paid him very 



* Life of Ayder All, i. p. 49. 



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