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and good roads from Madras through Bangalore and Mysore to Oatacamund, and through the Baramahl ; and the best proof of both is, that a gentleman has driven his wife in a tandem from Madras to Oatacamund and back, and when the lady was asked how she liked it, said, " nothing would give her so much plea- sure as to perform the journey in the same manner again, except going to England." I have given in the Appendix, the places to halt at, and the distances, both on the upper and lower roads, to the Neilgherry Hills, through AND NEILGHERRY HILLS. 31 Mysore, and by the Baramahl district ; and the Madras traveller will thus be enabled to choose for himself, according to his mode of travelling. If he goes by the Baramahl, he will have the gratification of passing through the country which was the first scene of the Civil labours of the late Sir Thomas Munro, " clarum et venerabik nomen" and of reposing at Darampoory, in the house, now a public bungalow, which was the first settled residence of that highly-gifted man. A residence which he had made so comfortable, that he left it for scenes of more extensive and arduous exertion, with that strong reluctance which is so well expressed in the private corres-

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