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miles only are under cultivation. The north portion is studded with tto*» 

 villages of Unjeenad, a few being extensive, as Khandcl, Keelandur \ 

 and Poottur, and most of them beautifully situated on a table land. 

 Nachyvile, though the capital, consists of only a few straggling houses, 

 belonging to the munnadies or chiefs. It is situated in a low open val- 

 ley, on the left bank of the Ambrawutty river, which meanders down 

 the centre in its course north ; and to the N. W. of it is Murraoor, a 

 large village on a slope of the hills, with extensive cultivation of rice 

 about it. The slopes of a table east of Nachy vile, hemmed in by black 

 rocks to the north and west, on which is the village of Kharce, are also 

 extensively cultivated. Here they also grow some dry grain in small 

 quantity. About the villages on the upper table, garlic and sugar- 

 cane thrive. The cultivation of the latter is at present confined. Wut- 

 tawaddy, composed of two hamlets, occupied by about 15 Kunnuver 

 families, may be mentioned for its situation in a narrow anddeep valley, 

 secluded from the sun's rays for four hours in the day, a circumstance 

 which will give some idea of the elevation of the hills about it. At 

 this place is some flat rice land, and the hamlets are situated on low 

 but commanding eminences on either side. The pagoda of Teneashy 

 on the left bank of the Ambrawutty near Nachyvile, is held in vene- 

 ration, and is the only building of note in this tract. Here and there, 

 cn the black rocky ridges in the valley, are many of those antiquated 

 small buildings, known by the designation of Pandy Coolys, some of 

 them perfect j it is impossible to obtain any correct account of their 

 origin. 



Rivers, fyc. — On these mountains are the sources of upwards of thirty 

 large streams, w r hich uniting, form eleven respectable rivers, the larger 

 portion pouring down in a succession of falls into the plain country to 

 the N. E. and S. E. Those of note in the eastern portion are the Jyem- 

 polliam river, having its sources in the chain of the Arunganul hills. 

 It flows by Tondygoody, where it receives the name of P^rryar, it then 

 winds S. by E., and rushing down the mountains at the head of the 

 Iyempolliam valley, is joined by the Shutar stream ; passing by 

 Punnacad, it now winds E. by S. in a deep forest to the hamlet of 

 Shadamoopenputty. It passes through an open valley, the banks low, 

 and bed sandy, where it is fringed with some cocoa-nut and mango 

 groves near Iyempolliam. Here a dam crosses it j thence it runs 

 S. S. E winding much, with steep banks, through dry cultivation to 

 Tyencotta and Vadiputty. It crosses the high roads N. E. and E. 



