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S. Description of the great Stations. 



PURMUTTY or Molapolliam hill is about one and an half miles N. E. 

 from the village of Purmuity, and about ten miles south from Kodimoodi; 

 at the foot of the hill on the west side is a small village Molapolliam, 

 from whence the road (which is a causeway) leads to the summit of the 

 hill, where there is a pagoda, on the platform of which is the station, 

 marked by a small hollow in the chunam, about thirty feet S. West from 

 the tower of the pagoda. 



Shennimalli. A hill near a respectable village of that name, on the 

 great road from Erode to Daraporam. The station is on the highest part 

 of the hill, a few hundred feet N. W. from the pagoda. It is marked 

 as usual with a platform and stone. 



Taelmatoor Hill. A well known hill, about six miles E* N. E. from 

 Shennimalli, with a pagoda near the top. The station is on a stone plat- 

 form, a little way to the N. W. of the pagoda, on the highest part of the 

 hill. 



Hallagamalli, A hill with a pagoda on the top, about seven miles 



S. W. from Shennimalli. The station is on the platform of the pagoda. 



Oodoormalli. A hill near the village of Qodoor, on the great road to 

 Darapbram, and about twenty miles S. by W. from Shennimalli. There 

 is a small pagoda on the east part of the hill, but the station is consider- 

 ably to the westward of the pagoda , upon a rock, which has a circle- 

 marked upon it. 



