212 NJLGHIRI HILLS. 



The drainage of the Northern and North-Western portion of the 

 Drainage of Northern ^^^1^ ^^^^ «J°wn towards the Mysore country by 

 escarpment. nvimeroiis small streams, the principal of which is 



the Pykara, and the large stream (the Moyaar) resulting from these 

 and from the drainage of the adjacent. part of Mysore, passing through a 

 deep gorge cut by its own denuding action in the Mysore plateau, flows 

 down near Guzzlehutty to join the Bhovani River at the foot of the 

 Ghats and of Rungasawmy's Peak. 



On the Eastern side of the hills, and below the Eastern Ghats 



the low country of Coimbatoor stretches away, 

 Coimbatoor country. 



a barren sandy tract, dotted over at distant 



intervals with a few low rounded hills, and, except during the first few 



weeks of the North-Eastern Monsoon, clothed with but little other 



vegetation, than a few wiry cacti and euphorbias and stunted 



banyans, which rather increase than diminish the desert-like aspect of 



the coimtry. 



The elevation of Matepolliam, a large village of Coimbatoor, near 



o T, , , the foot of the hills, is 800 feet above the sea. 



n.. eastern escarpment ' 



and drainage. From Hungasawuiy's Peak, the great escarp- 



ment of the Neelgherries trends away in a South-Western direction, 

 following, or rather directing, the course of the Bhovani River which 

 flows at its foot, and receives the drainage of the Southern portion of 

 the Neelgherry plateau. The country to the South of the Bhovani 



Hillcountr to So th ^^ ^^^^ ^'■''™ *^^ summit of the hiUs near Mailur 

 of Neelgherries. j^ gj^^^^ j^ ^^^^^ xil. It is coversd with long 



ridges of hills for the most j^art low, and runriing parallel with the 

 escarpment, with small alluvial plains intervening, through which flow 

 the Bhovani and its principal tributaries. One or two of these ridges, 

 such as that known as Lambton's Peak, (shown to the right of the 

 sketch,) rise prominently to an elevation not much inferior to that of 

 the Neelgherries, l)ut they arc either entirely isolated or communicate 



