32 DESCRIPTION or THE SEVERAL STATIONS. 



flannel under-jackets, and care should also be taken that they 

 do not sleep on the ground, to prevent which, charpaees, or 

 country cots should be given to them. 



Female servants are seldom to be had, and should be 

 brought up. 



It is customary to make a slight addition to the pay of 

 serva,nts on the hills, partly on account of their requiring 

 more and better food, and because rice is somewhat dearer.* 

 The following is the scale of wages usually paid by residents : 

 butler, 8 to 14 rupees per month ; cook, 8 to 10 ; maty, 7 to 

 8 ; dressing and waiting boy, 6 to 7 ; bearer, 7 ; horse-keepers, 

 7 ; grass-cutters, 4 to 5. 



Wood and peat are to be had in abundance : the wood is 

 brought to your door daily, at variable but low rates, and peat 

 is sold reasonably by two or three parties who own the Peat 

 Bogs, and is a good substitute for coal. 



HoESES AND CoNVETANOBS. Ponies are more useful and 

 more hardy than horses, which sometimes suifer from the 

 change of climate. There is, however, every facility for riding 

 Arab and other horses, and with proper care and warm cloth- 

 ing, they thrive extremely well. Messrs. J. Wilson and Co. 

 have several ponies which they let out on hire ; and as they are 

 an enterprizing firm, it is to be hoped that they will meet the 

 increasing demands of society, and add to their numbers and 

 equipments, and also improve their establishment by having 

 good conveyances of every description for the convenience 

 of the public : they would be amply repaid by thus accom- 

 modating their customers. 



Ponies and Horses are always to be purchased ; for there is 

 a constant departure of visitors, and the prices asked are 



* See the Bazar rates of several articles in the appeadix. 



