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patam, and other places in the same direction, and who, 

 having leisure, will be content with the slower, but still 

 pleasant conveyance of transit carriages from Bangalore. 



This leads us to remark on the existing mode of travel 

 from Arcot to the Hills, via Bangalore and Mysore. 



In the first chapter, we adverted to the Establishments of 

 transit carriages kept by Messrs. Burghall and others, at 

 Madras : by them travellers will be furnished with printed 

 tables of stages, and charges generally. We shall give an 

 abstract of those ; but we recommend the traveller to send 

 for both kinds of carriage, one for horses, the other for 

 bullocks, in order to enable him to decide in which he will 

 travel from Arcot to Bangalore or Mysore, and perhaps to 

 " Seegoor ;" as it is in the contemplation of Messrs. Burghall 

 and Co. to extend their horse-transit to the foot of the Hills. 



On seeing these carriages, between which there is a great 

 difference of size, the traveller can arrange as to the accom- 

 modation which he will require for himself and luggage : if 

 he should be obliged to change from the horse-transit to 

 that drawn by bullocks, as at present necessary from Ban- 

 galore or Mysore, he may be put to much inconvenience, and 

 be obliged to hire two of the smaller conveyances from one or 

 other of those places. 



The Editor's experience leads him to recommend the hire 

 of a Bullock Carriage, exj^ressly providing against there heing 

 any change of carriage, all the way from Arcot to the Hills. 

 This carriage is much easier than the horse conveyance. 

 Bullocks travel at the rate of 4| to 5 miles an hour, and 

 give much less cause for dissatisfaction. 



The Horse Transit is of course, generally speaking, 

 a quicker mode of travelling, averaging about 5 to 6 miles 

 an hour, but the horses are much jaded when the road is 

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