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for traffic between the Mysore country and Malabar,) a 

 branch will commence to ascend from the neighbourhood of 

 Nadkarry (at the top of the Carcoor Pass) and, passing 

 through the valley under and to the west of the Neilgherry 

 Peak, will reach the summit of the Table -land not far 

 from Neddiwuttum, where a bungalow will be erected ; from 

 which place it is intended to follow a more direct route to 

 Ootacamund than the present road of 17 miles, crossing the 

 Pykarra river higher up the stream : the gradients on this 

 road are no where to be steeper than 1 in 25 inches. 



The KoTEEGHEEiiy Pass. 



In the north-east angle of the plateau of the Hills, at 

 Kotergherry,is another ghaut, communicating with Meetapol- 

 lium, in the low country, and thence to Coimbatore and the 

 Salem road. 



This is the oldest road cut for the ascent of the Neilg-her- 

 ries, at the expense of Government, and it led formerly to the 

 original sanatarium at Dimhutty. It was constructed in a 

 very sound and substantial manner originally ; but having 

 been neglected, and suffered to fall into very bad order, it 

 was found necessary in 1845 to give it extensive repair 

 throughout, owing to which it is now in a very practicable 

 state, though too steep for wheeled carriages. 



This, and all the other ghauts, could be kept in repair at 

 a very trifling expense, if some person were entertained, 

 whose duty it should be, to go down the entire line once a 

 month with coolies, to see that no drains or channels had 

 got choked ; for the interruption of one of these outlets for 

 the heavy falls of rain, which now and then occur, and which 

 might, if remedied in time, be done by one man in an hour, 

 often causes breaches in the road which it takes twenty or 



