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them in puddles here and there ; and one about the seventh mile, 
had a small stream running to the eastward. We crossed two 
low rocky ridges from 30 to 60 feet high, but the road was re- 
markably even upon the whole, till we reached the tenth mile, 
where we made a steep ascent; and crossed a saddle perhaps 150 
feet in height, with hiljs on both sides. At this point a cut has 
been made through the narrow edge of the riufge to drag timber 
through, and the coolies knew it by the name of the Attripully 
Fort, though in passing it, I could make out no enclosure nor 
anything artificial, but the cut I rode through. It may however 
be that there is an embankment which runs along the ridge, as 
lines of fortification of this kind are found in all these Western 
jungles, even when the appearance of the forest otherwise, would 
lead us to suppose that man had never entered it. From this 
ridge we descended rapidly into a bamboo jungle and in about 
^ mile came to Attripully Fall. 
At this point a guard of four peons is stationed by the Travan- 
core Government as a check on smuggling ; an establishment so 
far successful, if my Teer guide's information is correct, that the 
gangs, wearied with their journey, very generally, throw down 
their burthens here, and give themselves up to sleep, while the 
peons are cooking for them, and small blame either to the guard 
which might be raised to ten times its present strength, and would 
be still unable to resist the force, the smugglers on this path could 
bring against it. From the account these peons give of the fever 
at Attripully, I am inclined to think that though appearances are 
in favour of its being as unhealthy as a dense bamboo jungle could 
be, it is not by any means so bad as might be imagined ; and our 
experience teaches that no one can say, except from actual trial, 
what are, and what are not, the spots where fatal fever may be 
found. Of the four peons stationed here, one was said to be ab- 
sent with an attack of fever then ; but it may very well have 
been that he was busy cooking for a smuggler's party or doing 
a little business in the trade himself. One man in four after a 
four months' residence is not so very bad a bill of health, consi- 
dering how the men are housed, even supposing (what was most 
