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Cold too must that heart be which can con- template without some feelings of pious awe, the monuments of fallen greatness which sur- round him. But it is an awe mixed with the honest pride of an Englishman. It is impossible to see the splendid tombs and religious establishments of Hyder Ally and Tippoo Sultan, and their wives and relations, so carefully preserved and protected by the British government, or to look at the munificent provision made for their adherents, without re- membering the English sentiment, which the progress of the war in 1791 called forth from AND NEILGHERRY HILLS. 3 Sir W. Meadows, as brave and honourable an officer as ever lived, that " an enemy con- quered is an enemy no more." In this spirit not only the government, but individuals seem to have acted ; for Tippoo's vindictive picture of his fathers triumph over Colonel Baillie's de- tachment remains upon the walls of the Dowlut Baug, as visible as when the great Captain of Waterloo commanded the place more than thirty years ago. But the heart sinks in contemplating the crowded memorials of those of our fellow countrymen who have since fallen under its pestilent climate, especially if the traveller has

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