1848.] 



The Neilgherry Mountains. 



was a change fraught with the most beneficial results ; and I imagine 

 the tranquillity and security, which they have ever since enjoyed, have 

 rendered these people a portion of the most contented of the host 

 who now acknowledge the Honorable Company's sway. With the 

 Public Buildings. exception of the buildings erected along the va- 

 rious lines of road for the accommodation of tra- 

 vellers, the public buildings of this district are chiefly congregated 

 within the limits of the cantonment of Ootacamund. They consist of 



A Public Office — containing the Magistrate's and Commanding Of- 

 ficer's establishments; the Pay Office, Post Office, and rooms 

 for the security of property in the charge of the Magistrate and 

 Commanding Officer. 



A substantially built Church, with burial-ground. 



A commodious Dispensary. 



A Jail, so called, from convicts, employed on the roads, having been 

 quartered in the sheds attached to the building: at present unap- 

 propriated. 



A Choultry situated near the main bazaar, for the accommodation of 

 native travellers, 



A Kharkhana, or building for housing Government cattle employ- 

 ed on the roads : the establishment for this purpose costing Ru- 

 pees 56-12 per mensem. 



A Cutwall's Choultry for police purposes. 



A Tahsildar's Cutcherry. 



A Meteorological Observatory on the summit of Dodabetta, erected 

 at the expense of Government. 



Traveller's Bungalows at Pykara, Neddiwuttum, Kulhutty, and Coo- 

 noor ; one at the foot of the Koondahs called the " Avalanche 

 and one at the summit of the Koondahs at Sispara. 



Chettrums for natives at Nunjanaad, Coonoor, Avalanche, Sispara^ 

 Koondahs in the long valley, Wallakadoo in the Sispara pass, the 

 Kaitee valley, Berliar in the Coonoor pass, and at Kulhutty See- 

 goor pass. 



These Cheltrum.s are almost all new buildings with substantial 

 walls, roofs of tiles, and doors and windows; but so singular are the 

 ideas of natives regarding accommodation for themselves, that they 

 prefer passing the night in little thatched huts built by wayfarers, 

 and seldom use the Chettrums, except to cook their food in. The 

 bridges have been already enumerated under the proper head. 



kotekgherky, 

 Neilgherry Hills, 

 29M Fehruanj, 1848.^ 



J. OUCHTERLONY, Captain, 



Superintendent Neilgherry Survey. 



