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

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