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said to be very unhealthy. The breadth of the horse-shoe at the curve 

 taking it straight across is about three to four miles, and diagonally it 

 is about fifteen miles. The hills slope away towards both ends of the 

 shoe. Santawaree on the slopes of the Poligar Hill Fort of Camron 

 Droog is 4,000 feet above the sea. A ghaut up which carts can travel 

 leads from there to Collerhulty between three and four miles distant. 

 There is also an old ghaut that zigzags up the steepest part of the 

 slopes passing below the peak of Coller Nulley. The rhododendron 

 does not grow here, nor the wild strawberry, but the raspberry and 

 the Nielgherry broad leaved blackberry are abundant, and branches 

 of the trees are loaded with moss, lichens, and orchids. It is said 

 that frost never appears there. There are no jackals on these hills. 

 I noticed the Blackbird (Mem/a simillina), the Yellow-billed Babbler 

 {Malacocirais malabaricus), the Bulbul (Hypsipetes nielglierriensis), the 

 Cinnamon or Bronze-backed Pigeon {Carpopliaga enprea), the Painted 

 Bush Quail (Perdiaita erytliroryncha), and other hill birds common to 

 the Nielgherries and other mountain ranges. Black Eagles {Neopus 

 malaiensis), Crows and Kites were plentiful, but I saw no Sparrows. 

 There are no black monkeys, but the Grey Langur (Presbytis priawus) 

 is very numerous." 



"On the 16th of May, whilst exploring on the hills above Muddi- 

 kal, I discovered a very fine waterfall. The upper falls are about 300 

 yards above the lower, but both were visible from where I was stand- 

 ing. In the upper falls, the water comes rushing over a precipitous 

 rock in great volumes and falls without a break for 240 feet, then 

 rushes through a mass of huge rocks, forming fine rapids to the lower 

 fall, where it precipitates itself 180 feet into the valley below. I 

 had a hot struggle over the slippery grass, and through the jungle 

 to the upper falls, and on my way came on the body of a sambur 

 killed by a tiger — nothing could exceed the beauty of the scene from 

 the upper falls. 



"On the 20th I left these hills without much regret, the utter 

 failure of the rains prevented me from getting any sport, and my 

 health was very indifferent during the whole of my sojourn. On 

 the 25th I arrived at Belloor, remaining a day at the Bungalow so 



