and Kunnundaven Mountains. 



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of Batlagoonta, and passing Dodiankota, joins the Vigay river, having 

 run a course of twenty-two and a half miles from its source. 



The Oomayar, rising in the Boothamulla hills, after fertilizing the ta- 

 ble-land of Pauchelur, is joined four miles from its source, by the Kul- 

 lar, a small stream from the Vaulrungatty hill. Thence, by the name 

 of the Kodavenar, it flows S. E. three and a half miles j E. by N. two 

 miles, through a narrow wooded valley ; is joined by the Kolluparae 

 stream running S. into it, from the table-land of Perryar ; then flows in 

 a winding course easterly, obstructed by rocks, and precipitates itself 

 down the mountains to the N. E. of Munnaloor ; thence, skirting the 

 hills a short distance through a deep forest, it enters the plains, and 

 joined by a large rivulet from the Audaloor hill four miles W. of 

 Ahtoor, winds past the above place. 



The Maunkurray, a small river, has its source in the northern sum- 

 mits of the Audaloor and Punnymullay mountains, winds down a 

 wooded and confined very rocky valley, till it approaches the plains 

 of Godulabavy. In its course through the flat country it has many 

 inflections ; a rich soil is formed along its banks, and eight miles from 

 its source crosses the road towards Pulney, east of Godulabavy, pre- 

 vious to which a portion of its water is turned south into the Thetthum- 

 pully tank ; thence it flows east. 



The Nankasi or Nangangy river has its principal source in the 

 Putchamullay hills, four miles S. E. of Veerupatchy, and descends to 

 the west of it by the appellation of the Vaykalar, and being joined by 

 the Perenkairymulla, issuing from the Perryar range of hills, slides 

 down the N. W. face through a narrow wooded valley, fringed with 

 teak and bamboos ; shifts for a short distance northerly, occasioned 

 by the junction of a large rivulet from Patchelur, and winding through 

 a flat expanse of forest to Purpul, a desolated hamlet, receiving in 

 its course the Kunnanur and Vuddacad streams, precipitates itself 

 down the hills to the lower table-land of Kotahvully, in a perpendi- 

 cular cataract of 150 feet, into a basin worked in the rock by the 

 force of its waters ; escaping from which, it slides down a flat rocky 

 bed, confined by precipices to one and a half furlong (where an arti- 

 ficial canal is conveyed from it), continues its course over a rocky bed, 

 again precipitating itself to the base of the hills, half a mile from 

 the above fall. These cataracts are called the mail and keel tullacooth. 

 In the vicinage of the lower one, a romantic spot, is an ancient tem- 

 ple of Neelamulla Allaghercoil, held in veneration, and of high 

 celebrity in times past. The Nankasi then flows north, passes west 



