14 GEOLOGY OF TRICHINOPOLY, &C. [ClIAP. I. 



or spur, after the principal Mullayali village which stands on almost the 

 highest part of the spur. The Tullasholay spur may perhaps be regarded 

 as a third small intermediate lobe, but the ravine dividing it from the 

 Chentilloo spur is only a shallow depression as compared with the Vaniaur 

 ravine. There are upwards of seventy villages on the several plateaux. 

 Excepting at the northern extremity, the flanks of the Shevaroys rarely 

 show any fine precipices. The Shenguttapady precipices, however, are ex- 

 tremely grand. They consist of nearly perpendicular walls of bare rock, 

 more than a thousand feet in height. The ten miles' journey from Yercaud 

 to Shenguttapady is amply repaid by the grandeur of the view from the 

 brow of these splendid precipices. The form of these precipices is depend- 

 ent on certain causes which will be explained further on. 



The TainandamuUay range is divided by two breaks into three 



parts of very different sizes. The southern part, 

 TainandamuUay. 



the TainandamuUay proper, which is by far the 



largest, is divided from the northern part of the range by a very deep 

 valley stretching from Vellymardy to beyond Comboolooky. The 

 lofty ridge thus cut off is known as the Carapandymullay, and is itself 

 fairly separated from the Teertamullay by a deep saddle-shaped depres- 

 sion. The TainandamuUay proper is deeply cut into by four great 

 ravines, — one on the north side at Taltooky, a second on the east, in 

 which the village of Tandumputty is situated, and the third and fourth 

 on the south side. From these two, which unite just before their opening 

 into the Salem-Ahtoor valley, emerges the Vellaur river. 



To the east of the TainandamuUay, and separated from it by the great 



Cottaputty Pass, we find the Kalroyenmullays. 

 Kalroyenmullay. mi /^-i -n • 



The C/ottaputty Pass is generally a level jungly 

 valley from 1| to f tlis of a mile in width, and has no where the character 

 of a narrow ravine, like the central part of the Munjawaddy Pass. The 

 Kalroyen range is by far the largest of all in superficial extent, though 

 in all probability holding only the fourth place in point of altitude^ 

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