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balls used in the festival of the Hooli, and its broad thick leaves 

 which serve the Hindu as plates and dishes, the laurel-leaved Gorui 

 (Ixora parviflora) which furnishes torches for the traveller. The 

 Mutti tree (Chuncoa Muttia) the ashes of which, particularly the bark, 

 containing much potash, are used instead of chunam, by betel-chew- 

 ers : the tree also affords good timber. Here and there a magnificent 

 banyan throws down its hundred arms, and the sacred Peepul rears 

 its verdant head; while further in the jungle grows the sandal, supply- 

 ing the fragrant oil and wood for which this part of the Ghauts is fa- 

 mous. The Sissoo (Dalbergia,) and Terminalia alata, excellent timber 

 trees ; the hard and lofty teak itself, and the Hopea decandria, the 

 wood of which is harder and more durable even than that of the teak; 

 the sago and areca palms, the jack, and the cashew nut. The wild cin- 

 namon (Cassia lignea) grows in great abundance near the Falls, and the 

 underwood glowed with the beautiful blossoms of the scarlet Ixora, 

 sacred to Siva and Krishnu, while the air was redolent with the fra- 

 grance of the wild jasmine. 



The vegetation of the Ghauts strongly reminded me, in its regular 

 and smooth bust-like outline, of that which clothes the lovely and ever 

 verdant Malayan Islands to the water's edge, similar loranthaceous 

 parasites festoon the loftier trees of the forest, and the jungles abound 

 with Myrtacese and Laurinese. The Ixoras and Eugenias are common 

 to both, and the cultivated forest clearings yield abundant supplies of 

 black pepper, cardamoms, areca, coffee, plantains, &c. 



Falls of Gairsuppa. Accompanied by my friend, Lieut. White, 

 47th Regt., I arrived from Siddapore at the thatched bungalow of 

 Korkunni, early in August, a little after midday. The bungalow 

 stands in an open part of the forest, about one and a half mile from 

 the Falls, the sound of which however did not yet reach us. Dripping 

 with rain, our shoes full of blood from the jungle leeches that had fast- 

 ened on our legs, and tolerably well fagged from a muddy march chiefly 

 on foot over clayey and rocky ascents and descents, covered with 

 dense thicket, we could not restrain our curiosity ; but leaving our 

 servants to prepare breakfast, with a guide trotting in front, we has- 

 tened towards the Falls along a narrow path winding through bush 

 mixed with tall forest which clothes the banks of the Sarawati, for 

 such is the name of the river that performs this stupendous lover's-leap 



