gentlest declivity we can obtain. In opening new on it. tracted from his Malabar Reports. now is to find out a good line of direction with the success of which has well rewarded the labor bestowed is seven miles two furlongs, after this, all will be com- the method pursued with the Coonoor Ghaut, the final feet wide will suffice for this in the first instance, and I would carry a road of the same breadth, all the pose doing is, to open the Ghaut so as to make a " What I would recommend first, and what I pro- paratively easy. " It will thus be seen, that all has gone on well so way from the summit of the Ghaut, to Oatacamund. " I have now fifty men employed under a European Ghauts, the plan is to disregard the old tracks and never to cease laboring, nor to desist from fresh trials, the bottom of the Ghaut, the whole descent of which till a new and eligible line is discovered. This was far, and that the Pass is practicable. The great object a good path-way. They will in a short time get to officer ,in cutting away the jungle, and marking out ultimo. " I send the result of the Havildar's survey, ex- APPENDIX. 129 passage for horses, palankeens and laden bullocks, six brought their report to me there, on Sunday the 27th