CLASS III. EEPTILIA: ORDER 4. OPHIDIA. 
893 
THE NAIA HAJE. 
native infantry at Condapilly, in the Nortliern Cicars. From liavinsj once been a town of con- 
siderable importance, it lias dwindled to a very inferior rank, and tlic hill-fort, at one period of 
considerable strength, now presents nothing but a meager skeleton of its past celebrity. Tower- 
ing high above the little esplanade on which the humble range of ban-acks which sheltered the 
detachment was raised, the mountain was accessible at only one point, where a winding track — 
the remains of a flight of stone steps now in complete dilapidation — formed a steep ladder, np 
which I have often toiled at early dawn, eager to watch the rising sun from the topmost pin- 
nacle — a sight that amply repaid me for the fatigue of half an hour's climbing. There, crumb- 
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