14 The Neilgherry Mountains. [No. S4, 



The quantity of land thus lost to the state I calculate to amount 

 to no less than 200,000 acres, as is shown by the following state- 

 ment : — 



(Square acres.) 



Total content of the geographical surface of 



the Neilgherries 268,494 



Of this quantity there are now under cultiva- 

 tion including lands lying fallow Sq. Acres 31,434 



Pasturage to be reserved for the cattle of the 

 Todars at the exaggerated rate of 200 acres 

 per 100 head (less than 40 per 100 being 

 allowed by the revenue authorities in the 

 calculation for assessment), for an average 

 of 2,000 head of buffaloes will be „ 4,000 



Pasturage to be reserved for the cattle of the 

 Burghers, consisting of buffaloes and bul- 

 locks, averaging 8,000 head at 100 acres 

 per 100 head „ 8,000 



Land occupied by the cantonment of Oota- 



camund, future barracks, roads, &c „ 6,000 



Village sites, sacred groves, &c „ 2,060 



oAftAAn A p 1 ^ Tracts of rocky srround, 



200,000 Acres of land ' 



jying waste on the morasscs, and Other land 



iS'pilghen-ies exclusive 



of the Koondahs. not immediately fit for 

 cultivation (although these might well be con- 

 sidered as compensated by the gain of sur- 

 face introduced through the undulations of 

 the land) „ 17,000 



Deduct. .68,494 



and there is a remainder of. .200,000 



acres entirely unoccupied and waste, being either covered with forest, 

 or lying under grass not required for pasturage. 



Under a better system of cultivation also it would not be necessary 

 to suffer so large a proportion of the Burghers' cultivated land to lie 

 fallow at one time, as is at present in that condition, amounting, in 

 round numbers, to 17,000 acres out of a total of 31,500 acres of clear- 

 ed and arable land. 



