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and, if the climate is not so bracing and invigorating, it 

 wants the cold sharpness of the more elevated locality. 



*' The scenery at Kotergherry, is tame, and altogether less 

 grand than Ootacamund, but it possesses much beauty, where 

 it borders, and overhangs the plains : there is a want of trees' 

 the hills being either covered with grass, or a low bushy 

 jungle, where they are not cultivated. 



" The great drawback to the station is, the want of a resi- 

 dent Medical Officer, and a good bazar, there being only one 

 market-day weekly. 



" It is to be observed, also, that the limited accommoda- 

 tion at Coonoor, and Kotergherry, has much prevented their 

 being resorted to by invalids, but each will soon be improved 

 in this respect. 



" For pale, and weak children, the climate of Kotergheny 

 is well suited, especially when they are growing rapidly — 

 they can be much in the open air, and soon gain strength. 

 It is also well adapted for women, whose systems are much 

 relaxed, and feel the severity of the moist cold of Ootacamund. 



*' Kotergherry, is much preferable to Ootacamund for per- 

 sons who have been long subject to the oppressive and re- 

 laxing heat ' of Bengal ; who suffer from dyspepsia, constipa- 

 tion, and weak health, arising from too much, and long con- 

 tinued mental exertion, and the cares and anxieties of offi- 

 cial life. 



" I may add one other advantage that the Bengal invalid 

 has, in proceeding to Madras — and that is, the medium cli- 

 mate of Bangalore, where he may make a short stay, with 

 much benefit." 



