22 FEELIMINABT BEMARKS. 



is a Bungalow at " Sispara" the head of the Pass, height 

 6,742 feet — and another called the "Avalanche Bungalow" 

 about half way to Ootacamund, height 6,720 feet. The 

 slope of the Road from thence is so gradual as never to exceed 

 If inch in 12, and is in many places level. 



From " Sholaicul" to "Arriacode," on the Beypoor river, 

 is 25^ miles, and thence to " Calicut," on the coast, by the 

 river, (here navigable, at all seasons, for large boats) is 

 35 miles. 



When this road is improved, it will doubtless soon be- 

 come one of the most frequented, especially by travellers 

 from Bombay. 



The views in the ascent of this splendid pass are grand in 

 the extreme ; particularly from the Sispara Bungalow, and 

 the summit of the Avalanche hill, near the Bungalow. The 

 view from this hill is the ne plus ultra of thie group. This 

 wild scene is exceedingly striking, and perhaps the most ro- 

 mantic on the Neilgherries, though rivalled by that from 

 " Makoortee Peak," about 14 miles from Ootacamund, where 

 is to be seen the most inconceivably grand mountain scenery 

 in the hills, formed by the termination, north, of the group 

 of the Koondahs. 



The Goodalooe Pass. 



Commencing at the N. W. angle of the plateau, is that 

 leading from Neddiwuttum, on the Hills, 17 miles from Oota- 

 camund, to Groodaloor at the foot of the pass, which is 5^ miles 

 in length, forming the communication between the Hills and 

 Cannanore, Tellicherry and the western coast towards Bom- 

 bay, through the Wynaad country, and also with Calicut by 

 the most direct road which exists to that city ; descending the 

 Carcoor pass, and passing through Nellumboor, parallel to the 



