ing the climate of the Hills, the reader will soon. I have been induced to add these views, FALLS OF THE CAVERY battles, or with a tedious description of the all the previous Reports. from the utmost violence of the western mon- of the arid and wild appearance of the country but shall merely add to each drawing a brief on the Neilgherries ; and they amply confirm thrice-told tales of sieges or of hard-fought- CONCLUSION. often and so profusely detailed by various sandy and dried-up plains of the Carnatic, or The truth of what I have here stated regard- by Extracts of Reports and Returns sent in by writers ; and the country en route being so selected, I shall not encumber my readers with between the Pass of Nakanairy and Bangalore, find in the Appendix abundantly established explanation of the place it is intended to re- present. nearly all the following views having been so Dr. Baikie, the Superintending Medical Officer THE different important events connected with from the idea that there are many persons both scanty in pictorial interest, except what I have