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Appendix, No. XII. 



LIST OF PUBLTCATIONS DESCEIPTIVB OP THE 

 NEILGHEEEIES. 



1. — The first pen that called the serious attention of the Indian com- 

 mnnity to the value of the If eilgherry Hills, was that of the Bevd. 

 James Hough of Madras in " Letters on the CKmate, Inhabitants, 

 Productions, &c. of the Neilgherries or Blue Mountains of Coimba- 

 tore," addressed to the Editor of "The Calcutta Hurkaru" newspaper, 

 between July and November 1826, and subsequently pubhshed, in a 

 collected form, in 1829, by Hatchard and Son, London. 



2. — In 1827, Dr. Young, of the Madras EstabHshment, presented to 

 the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta a paper on " The General 

 and Medical Topography of the Neilghen-ies," which is published in Vol. 

 4 of their Transactions, and is a most interesting account, 



3. — In 1832, Capt. Henry Harkness, of the Madras army, published 

 " A Description of (the Todas) a singular aborigiaal race inhabiting the 

 summit of the NeUgherry Hills or Blue Mountains of Coimbatore," 

 through Smith, Elder and Co., London. 



4. — In 1834, Capt. Mignon of the Bombay European Kegiment, 

 published a Httle Volume entitled " Notes extracted from a private 

 Journal written during a tour through Malabar, and among the Neil, 

 gherries," printed at the American Mission Press, Bombay. 



5. — In the same year, Lieut. H. Jervis, H. M. 62ud. Regiment, pubhsh- 

 ed a " Narrative of a Journey to the Falls of the Cavery, with an His- 

 torical and descriptive account of the NeUgherries ;" through Smith, 

 Elder and Co., London. 



6. — ^In the same year, also, appeared the first edition of Dr. Baikie's 

 account of the HUls, printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta. 



7. — In 1835, Dr. P. M. Benza, Surgeon to the then Governor of 

 Madras, published a " Geological sketch of the Neilgherries,'' which will 

 be found in Vol. 4 of the Joiu-nal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



8. — In 1838, Dr. DeBurgh Birch, of the Madras Service, laid before 

 Government " A Topographical Eeport on the Neilgherries," published 

 in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Vol. VIII. 



