BY W, KING, ESQ. 



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being from G to 800 feet — though there is no very great area 

 of ground, even at this height, owing to their peculiar ridgy 

 configuration ; the main valleys being much lower than this, 

 while the ridges run up to between 2 and 3,000 feet. 

 From observations which I have made myself with the 

 aneroid and the thermometer, and from a list of others 

 made by a former officer* of the Irrigation Company, the 

 highest point in the main mass of the Nullamullays appears 

 to be that marked in the map as Mantycondah, which is 

 within 3,000 feet above the sea. Mr. Minchin used to have a 

 bungalow on another ridge, a mile or so south of this, which 

 was unfortunately burnt down last year. 



Mr. Arbuthnot, when Head Assistant at Cummum, had 

 another bungalow on a small plateau of the range, about 12 

 miles east-north-east (as^the crow flies) of Mr. Minchin's 

 place, which, from the list of observations already referred 

 to, would appear to be only 2,341 feet above the sea, 



I think the highest mountain in all Kurnool is Byrenconda, 

 part of an outlying range of the Nullamullays to the west 

 of Cummum. On the summit my boiling-point thermo- 

 meter stood at 205°, which, at the usually adopted rate of 

 500 feet for a degree, gives 3,500 feet as the elevation ; and 

 from all I could see this must be about the height. Between 

 this height and that of Mantycondah there may be an inter- 

 mediate one in Eeshwarnacoopum, a flat dome-shaped 

 mountain about 20 miles north-north- west of Cummum. 



The range of mountains is traversed by several paths and 

 roads, all of which run generally from east to west, the 

 main ones being the Budwail road in the Kuddapah Dis- 

 trict and the Nundycunnama road in Kurnool. The rest are 



* I believe, Mr Buchanan, 



