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Journal of an Expedition [no. 3, new series. 
YI. Journal of an Expedition over the AnnamnUay Motm- 
tains fo?' the purpose of examining the Teak Forests, and 
ascertaining 5?/ what line the Timber could best be carried 
to the Coast. By Captain Frederick Cotton, C. E. 
Left Cochin at 2 J P. M. in a boat \Yith 10 oars, the tide and wind 
in favor. Reached Allwye before sunset. The iiver there be- 
comes shallow, but the boat, with the crew out of it, was taken 
oyer the shoals without difficulty, the tide being at the time about 
half flood. From Allwye to Sheura (4 miles) the river is very 
shallow, but the boat was hauled over the sand-banks in a foot or 
15 inches water. At Sheura, the Rajah of Cochin has a bunga- 
low, and he is now living there for bathing ; which he has the good 
taste to prefer in fresh water and comparative solitude than in the 
brackish water and most miscellaneous mob at Allwye the fashion- 
able watering place of the Cochinese, who at this season emigrate 
there in great numbers. 
Allwye has one essential as a bathing-place, which is, that the 
water is so shallow an infant may learn to swim in it without 
danger ; but beyond this, I see no other advantage in the small 
stream to make up for its dreadful popularity. Above Sheura the 
river makes a bend by which at least 3 miles are lost in distance, 
and as I met with several shallows in different parts of the stream 
my progress was so slow that it was nearly daylight before I reach- 
ed Malliatoor. The Allwye river is very much in character like 
the upper part of the Baypoor and Cotiaddy rivers of Malabar ; 
but the banks are lower, and the country on either side differs, in 
the absence of those laterite knolls which occupy so great a portion 
of that distruit. 
Malliatoor is a small village belonging to Cochin, on the north 
Bide of the river, inhabited by Roman Catholics, whose houses 
are exceedingly good, as should be their morals also, seeing that 
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