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galancherry , and about five miles east from Calcaud. The station is on a 

 platform marked. 



Red Hill Station. This station is on the red sand hills, that lie about 

 eight miles west from Manapar, and about two miles east from a small 

 village called Ittumpully, whose inhabitants alone can trace the spot on 

 the sand hill where the station was, and which is marked by five very 

 long pickets, driven into the drift sand, four of which form a square of 

 nearly three feet, and the fifth, being in the center of the square, defines 

 the station. 



Munpotha, is a small rocky hill, about four miles east from Arambully, 

 and three miles south from Punnagoody. The road to the summit is on 

 the east side of the hill. The station is on a large rock marked by a 

 circle. 



Koodunkolum station, is on a rising ground, about three miles S. W, 

 from the village of that name, and three miles N. E. from Pillikolum a 

 This ground is nearly a mile north from the sea shore, and is covered 

 with a thick forest of thorn trees. The station will be found in the cen« 

 ter of a high circular platform marked on a stone. 



Punnae station, is the great station of observation at the southern extre= 

 mity of the grand meridional arc, and is marked by a square building 

 with two doors and two windows arched, and a solid pillar in the middle, 

 on the top of which there is a large circular stone with a hole in the cen- 

 ter. The building is on a rising ground, nearly a mile S. E. from the vil- 

 lage of Punnae, about eight miles N. E. from Cape Comorin, and nearly 

 seven hundred yards from the sea shore. 



