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CAPTAIN NELSON'S REPORT ON CERTAIN 



timber. We returned to Peddacherro, and proceeded to 

 Siddapore* through a dense bamboo jungle in which I ob- 

 served some blackwood, rosewood and a few teak trees of 

 small size. Timber was being felled as we passed through. 

 The road through the jungle is level, broad and soft ; indeed, 

 there is not a stone to be seen. All this land appears very 

 rich and ought to produce more profitable crops than bam- 

 boo and long jungle grass. 



Five miles from Peddacherro, we halted on the margin of 

 a nullah : so far you could drive a coach and four. Next 

 morning the road became more broken and uneven. After 

 proceeding about 3 miles, we passed through another arch- 

 way in ruins, and soon came upon another stone road- way 

 and stairs winding down a gorge in the hills to the pagoda 

 of Nagalooty, which is seen over the tree tops in a ravine 

 full of large mangoe trees at the bottom. Here you get a 

 fine panoramic view of the low country stretching away 

 towards Kurnool. Nagalooty pagoda is buried in an ave- 

 nue of large mangoe trees. On the margin of a nullah there 

 are two stone wells and three small dewals, besides the 

 great Pagoda, a Priest (Pushari) lives here all the year 

 round. 



4. From Nagalooty to Siddapore you travel through a 

 bamboo jungle — country flat — soil red. The Fort of Sidda- 

 pore stands on an elevated piece of ground and is regularly 

 built of hewn stone, with a ditch round it. I rode into the 

 Fort over a breach in the wall ; the breach is the effect of 

 time and weather, not of service. The Fort and ditch and the 

 remains of a town outside, Pagodas, Edgahs and other 

 buildings are all grown over with thorn jungle. There 

 is a stone godown here for storing grain. From the Fort 

 walls, I saw the dry bed of the Siddapore tank of large size, 

 but the bund delapidated and the bed very shallow. There 

 is a little village of Chenchowars here, 



* Vide Nofp 4. 



