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CHAPTER XX. 



COFFEE COUNTRIES. 



BETWEEN well-recognised limits north and south of 

 the Equator Coffee is found growing, and bearing 

 highly-profitable crops, in a wide range of countries. 

 To attempt anything like an exhaustive account 

 of these would be manifestly impossible within the 

 range of a single chapter ; but a few facts are 

 given which will at least give a good general idea 

 of the individual districts, and for more detailed 

 information the planter must refer to local sources 

 of information. In 



BRITISH INDIA, 



Coffee is grown along the summits and slopes of 

 the Western Ghauts, from the northern limits of 

 Mysore south to Cape Comorin ; in Coorg, Travan- 

 core, in the Wynaad, on the slopes of the Neil- 

 gherry Hills, and also on the Shevaroy Hills and 

 Pulney Hills. Major Bevan introduced Coffee into 

 the Wynaad about the year 1822 as a curiosity; 

 Mr. Cannon, somewhat later, formed a plantation 

 in Mysore ; Mr. Glasson, in 1840, started a planta- 

 tion in Manautoddy; and in 1842 it was growing 

 well at Belgaum. The extension since has been 



