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in all the requirements as well of ladies as of gentlemen. 

 This renders it unnecessary to load baggage with clothes, be- 

 yond what the visitor already possesses, suited to the climate. 

 At Madras, where there are good tailors and dress-makers, a 

 sojourn of two days is sufficient to prepare for the journey. 



The respectable firm of Taylor and Co. have Livery 

 Stables, almost as extensive as any in Calcutta ; and the hire 

 of carriages of every description, is much more reasonable. 



Messrs. Burghall and Co., and others, who are proprietors 

 of the transit carriages (drawn by Horses or Bullocks, as 

 may be desired) will lay the transit from Arcot, on a day's 

 notice ; instructions transmitted by the Electric Telegraph 

 to their agents on the line, enabling them to do so without 

 risk of disappointment. 



There have been numerous publications descriptive of the 

 Neilgherries, and it is much to be regretted that many of 

 them are now out of print. Several, however, are within 

 reach of enquiry, and some of them are well deserving of 

 perusal ; furnishing, as they do, valuable details of the Geolo- 

 gical formation of the Hills, their Topography, general sta- 

 tistics, capabilities for agriculture, and great productiveness, 

 with observations on their native inhabitants, and specula- 

 tions as to their origin ; none of which come within the scope 

 of a work professing simply to be a guide. But the Editor 

 has taken the liberty to select from these, and incorporate 

 much of the valuable matter contained in them ; and he 

 trusts that by inviting attention to a list, which will bo 

 found in the appendix, of all the works that, by the most 

 diligent enquiry, he has been able to trace, he may open a 

 readier access to them than attended his own researches. 



Before closing his remarks, the Editor cannot refrain from 

 quoting the recorded sentiments of two eminent personages 



