NEILGHERRIES. 
The Neilgherri mountains are within the province 
of Koimbatoor, in Southern India, a little below the 
country of Maisore. They extend east and west, 
and form a connecting link between the Eastern and 
Western Ghats. Geographers would rank them in 
the second class of mountains, the altitude of their 
highest peak being something less than nine thou - 
sand feet. 
Here, amid the raging heats of the tropics, scarcely 
twelve degrees north of the equator, 
The breezy Spring 
Stands loosely floating on the mountain top, 
And deals her sweets around. 
Hither, from the scorched and panting soil of the 
plains, from the smiting breath of pestilent j unguis, 
the traveller may be transported, almost as speedily 
as the reader, to regions of perpetual vernal freshness 
and health. And here the wandering European 
meets a thousand fairy friends in the “ langsyne ” 
flowers which crowd upon his path. The violet, 
