May 1861.] 



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scriptions or we shall learn nothing, for tradition at one time tells 

 you it is a Jain temple contemporary with the Tower of Babel, and 

 at another blandly states, it was inhabited and governed by a Queen 

 150 years ago. 



I have the honor to be, &c, 

 Coomptah, \ (Signed) W. S. Drever, Lieut. 



2Zrd February 1859. j Executive Engineer, 



True copy. 



(Signed) J. N. Hunter, 

 Acting District Engineer of Canara. 



True copy. 

 W. H. Horsley, Lieut. Colonel, 



Chief Engineer. 



XIII. — Public Works in Travancore. 



Political Department. 

 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MADRAS GOVERNMENT. 

 Read the following letter from Francis N. Maltby, Esq., Resi- 

 dent of Travancore and Cochin, to T. Pycroft, Esq., Chief 

 Secretary to Government, Fort Saint George, dated 26th June 

 1860, No. 38. 



1 have the honor to report, for the information of His Excel- 

 lency the Governor in Council, that Mr. Collins, appointed Civil 

 Engineer to the Rajahs of Travancore and Cochin, assumed his 

 duties at Cochin on the 17th April last, and, after a short tour in 

 the Cochin State, joined me at Trevandrum on the 16th ultimo. 



2. As it is of much importance that the Madras Government 

 should be kept fully informed of the progress of the Public Works 

 of these States, I have the honor to lay before them, the following 

 statement of the plans which will first occupy Mr. Collins' atten- 

 tion. 



