BY W. KING, ESQ, 



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case, at least, the bund could be repaired without any very 

 enormous expense, and the country below it again made the 

 fertile garden it is reported to have been in former times. 

 To the east of Yellagode there is the old bund of a large 

 tank, the bed of which is now covered with forest. This 

 must be a very old tank, and there are evidences that others 

 with their cultivation existed between it and the above 

 village. In fact, all along the foot of the hills in the Khoon- 

 dair valley there are traces of old and discarded tanks, some 

 of large area. In the large valley inside the mountains, 

 whence the Nundial stream flows, I also saw the bund of 

 &n old tank, now overgrown with forest. 



The particular instance I wish to draw attention to, 

 is that of an old tank which used to lie inside the outer 

 low ridge of hills, 4* miles south-east by south of Roodrar, on 

 the road to Diggoo Hoblum. There is no delineation of this 

 tank on the map, but it is plain enough, when one stands 

 on the long bund traversing the stream as it runs across a 

 depression in the Roodrar ridges. The bund is about 30 feet 

 high and nearly half a mile long, and apparently only 

 breached at the stream. The people about tell some wonder- 

 ful stories of the way the water used to lie back behind the 

 ridges so as to form a large lake, and say that the cultiva- 

 tion, of which there is scarcely any evidence now, was very 

 extensive. 



The Nullamullays are, like most other low ranges of high- 

 land in India, more or less feverish at certain times of the 

 year*. The feverish period appears to be that which comes 



* Captain Beddome gives a more favorable account : — "The higher 

 portions of these hills appear to be healthy all the year round. Mr. 

 Arbuthnot, Head Assistant Collector of the District, has a bungalow on a 

 part of the range near Cumbum- He informed me that he has been on 

 the hills at all seasons, and has never caught fever. The natives do not 

 appear to suffer from it, &c." 



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