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Madras, is 160 rupees, and for a native servant 40 : and 

 if the passenger returns to Calcutta, within four months, 

 the rates are reduced. 



If the steamer anchors off Madras after dark, although 

 the Mussoolah Boats may come off, it will not be safe to 

 land : passengers must be content to remain on board till 

 the boats retui'n at daylight. 



Three or four persons with their ordinary baggage, may 

 go in one of these boats : they average about 1^ tons each. 



In ordinary weather, the surf wave is not above three feet 

 high ; and that zealous Officer, Captain Biden, the Master 

 Attendant, gives all commanders of vessels timely notice, by 

 signal, when caution is necessary. Scarcely an accident has 

 occurred to a passenger boat during many years past. 



On landing, numerous palankeen carriages, or " Bandies," 

 as they are called, will be found waiting on the beach, and 

 carts for luggage. 



There are three good Family-Hotels, kept by respectable 

 natives on the Mount road, about two miles distant from 

 the Beach ; and the Editor can confidently recommend the 

 one called " The Elphinstone Hotel." Those in the town 

 of Madras, are not adapted for families. 



The Madras Club is justly considered as the most admi- 

 rably conducted institution of the kind in India : members 

 of the Bengal Club are considered as members ; and gentle- 

 men travellers find no difficulty in being admitted to it 

 benefits, on the introduction of a member. 



The shops at Madras are, for all the purposes of preparing 

 to visit the Hills, as well supplied with requisites as any in 

 Calcutta ; and investments of European clothing and articles 

 of dress and for household purposes, from London and Paris, 

 are as abundant and varied, as the importations to Calcutta, 

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