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of Bangalore, and towards- Cofcotta is upwards of 50C0 feet above the 

 fea. The table land, or rather the general height of the low country 

 in Coimbctoor (for it is much undulated) is about 900 feet. Towards 

 Tinnevdly it falls to between four and five hundred feet. The fall to 

 the northward'of Bangalore is very rapid after pa fling Nundydroog, and 

 the fummit of Paugkur, which rifes high from its bafe, is nearly upon 

 a level with the table land near Bangal:re. The mean height of the 

 bafe near Gooiy is n 82 feet, which is nearly the mean height of the 

 flat 4 country extending round Gooty and BeUmy from which plain the 

 mountains and hills rife like iflands from the fea. Thefe facts being 

 eflablifhed, it is not difficult to account for the different tem- 

 peratures in the difFerent diftricls, at the fame^ and at different feafons 

 of the year. In carrying on my geographical operations I have been 

 particular as to the heights, and the general ranges of mountains, for 

 they form the moft. prominent features of the country, and Tuch in- 

 formation might aid 1 the refearehes of intelligent medical men, in their 

 invefligation of the caufes of thofe difeafes, whicli \ arefo fatal in fome 

 parts of the Pen infula. There are fome remarkable fa els with reijpejil: 

 to the country to the weft ward of Bangalore, After pacing the range 

 of hills, in which Savendmog, ; Paugkur, and feveral other, ftations are 

 lituated, the country has a fudden defcent^ and continues low, confi- 

 de r ably to the weftward of Seringapatwk where.it begins, again to rife 

 towards the mountains called the weffern ghauts^ which, are in general 

 from two to three thOufand feet higher than thofe which form the 

 caftern ghauts. Sermgapatavi therefore, and all the country north and 

 north-eafterly towards the ceded diftricls, is a valley, upwards of a 

 tboufand feet below the table land round Bangalore, ctefcending as 



-we advance to the northward. The Savendroog range forms a kind 

 of barrier to the ea ft, but a more complete one is formed to the we{l* 



"ward, ; by' fhofe^jpendous mountains wbjch form the ghauts, a nqm^ 



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