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bouring authorities, and who would constantly traverse the 

 forests (as was done at Anamalai by Captains Michael and 

 Hamilton), till the system of robbery and spoliation is sup- 

 pressed. I would also strongly urge the location of a European 

 magistrate in the Wainild, who would enforce the observance of 

 regulations, and see to the management of the roads, ferries, 

 police, revenue, conservancy, &c, in that remote locality.* 



15. Ganara Teak. — This timber generally is of smaller scant- 

 ling than that of Wainad. It has the advantage of water-car- 

 riage to the coast not possessed by the two last, but it has for 

 some years been chiefly obtained for naval purposes from the 

 banks of the Black Eiver, where it emerges from the Supah Hills, 

 and the supply has gradually been sent down from more distant 

 localities, as in Malabar, where the teak is now cut by the Terupad 

 of Nellambur, just under the Nilgiri peak. Above the ghats in 

 the Supah and Sundah talooks there is a very considerable sup- 

 ply of smaller wood suited for the engineer requirements at Bel- 

 gam, Dharwar, Lingasugur, &c. 



. 16. The Qund Forest. — This is the chief remaining reserve in 

 Canara. I saw here several thousand trees on an elevated pla- 

 teau with precipitous sides. The trees are well grown and ripe, 

 conserved by their inaccessible position, which has been rarely 

 visited by Europeans. The teak here is scarcely intermixed 

 with any other tree (the Billi Nundee f excepted), and grows on 

 slaty rock, in many places having very steep gradients. The 

 early working of this valuable G-und forest is of the first im- 

 portance, being much threatened with fire ; some trees are already 

 scorched at the root, and much dead wood lies in the forest. The 

 question for consideration is, how to get out the wood ? — whether 

 by a rocky nullah with at least three small falls, or by making a 

 road twenty-three miles in length. This is a question I cannot 

 venture to answer, but I may mention that the Collector Mr 

 Fisher, and Dr Gibson, I believe, incline to improving the road, 

 whilst Colonel A. F. Cotton and Lieutenant Taylor, Indian Navy, 



* The appointments of a magistrate and an assistant-conservator have 

 been made, and the vigorotis prosecution of the revenue survey is being car- 

 ried out. 



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