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THE NULL AM ULL AYS. 



mere footpaths, or timber roads, most of the former having 

 been thrown out of use when the two trunk roads were 

 made. In the Kurnool District, the Jotee Conva, Yellagode 

 Cunnama, and the Dorenaul pass are still in good use ; while 

 the flanks of the mountains on either side are penetrated 

 for some distance by jungle paths and timber tracks. 



The Nundy cunnama road is the main artery of communi- 

 cation between Kurnool and Guntoor, and it is very well 

 laid out ; but, for the mountain distance, it is very long (20 

 miles), and owing to the wildness of the country must 

 generally be done in one march. There is no conve- 

 nience at all for an European traveller on this road. 

 What little water there is is bad, or at any rate allowed 

 to go bad, through having no proper reservoir, and there 

 is not a bungalow between Cummum and Kurnool, much 

 less any sort of shelter between Gazerpilly and Kistnum- 

 shettypilly, a distance of 23 miles on a mountain road. 

 For Natives, there is the dirty water and a Chut- 

 trum about half way across. This resting place is 

 at 1,500 feet above the sea, while the highest point 

 of the road is at about 2,000 feet. There is an enormous 

 amount of traffic by this road ; and, looking to what it may 

 be hereafter, owing to Canal and Railway, it might be as 

 well for Government to make it a more agreeable route. 

 There are the good walls of a small bungalow at Gazerpilly, 

 and another might be easily built at Kistnumshettypilly ; 

 while a decent well might readily be sunk, or a small reservoir 

 made, at the half-way resting place. It may also not be out 

 of place to mention here, that, for communication between 

 Cummum and Kuddapah, between which places there is a 

 great deal of traffic, it would be comparatively easy and of 

 the greatest use, to open up the old road or path (marked 

 by a double line on the Ordinance Map), which crosses the 



