8 EXPIANATOET IWTRODITCTIOIS". 



access to the latter, the easy journey of a day instead of a 

 tedious travel of four or five days : and this enables the 

 Editor to dispense with thirty pages of protracted routes 

 given in the first edition ; and he has substituted for them 

 full particulars in regard to routes, distances, and stages, 

 as at present existing : the lines of the routes appear in 

 the Map. 



But to shew the facilities of the journey, the Editor will 

 simply mention, that he left the Hills, on his return to Calcut- 

 ta, on the 5th of September last ; reached Madras on the 9th ; 

 remained there two days ; embarked on a steamer, and reached 

 Calcutta on the 16th : again embarked on a steamer, on the 

 23rd of September ; and reached Ootacamund on the 1st of 

 October ; having remained two days on the way at Madras; 

 He arrived within one Jwur of the time at which, by the 

 Calcutta Electric Telegraph, he had apprized his friends of 

 his expectation of meeting them, to breakfast, at the Bunga- 

 low near the head of the " Seegoor Pass." 



In addition to the full information contained in the body 

 of the work, as to the approaches to the Hills, and the ac- 

 commodation now afforded, by recent improvements both 

 at Ootacamund and Coonoor, and which will shortly be 

 extended to Kotergherry, the Editor submits the following 

 for the particular notice of those contemplating a visit to 

 the Hills from Calcutta. 



It may be assumed, that such intending visitors will pro- 

 ceed to Madras in one of the P. and 0. Company's steam 

 vessels which make the passage in four days ; and it may 

 reasonably be expected, that, in a short time, the voyage 

 will be accomplished in three : the distance being 770 miles, 

 and a rate of 10|^ knots per hour being anticipated by the 

 screw steamers. The passage-money for a single person to 



