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March 11.
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Irrigation.
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
1 lth March.—I went four cosses to Caray Hosso-hully; that is, the
new village at the tank. The whole country, so far as I saw, was totally
uninhabited, and very few traces of former cultivation were observ-
able. A few narrow vallies seem once to have been under rice. The
higher grounds, I suspect, have been always a forest; although,
from the stateliness of the trees, the soil would appear to be good,
and in its present state much of it is not too steep for the plough,
while no part seems incapable of being formed into terraces, as is
done below the Ghats. In a small portion near Yella-pura, the trees
of the forest were stunted, and from a want of moisture had lost
their leaves ; but in the greater part they were very luxuriant, and
many of the kinds were, to me at least, quite unknown. In my bo-
tanical investigations, however, I had very little success; for the
cutting down one of these trees is a day's work for four or five
natives; and at Yella-pura I could procure nobody that would climb
to bring me specimens. The vast number of ants, indeed, that live
on the trees in India, render this a very disagreeable employment.
Caray Hosso-hully is a miserable village of six houses, collected
by Major Monro as a stage between Yella-pura andSoonda; for, on
his taking possession of the country, the whole way was through a
continued waste. The nearest inhabited place to Hosso-hully is two
cosses distant. The new settlers are Marattahs, by which appella-
tion in the south of India the Sudras of Maharastra DSsam are
known. Since the conquest, many of these people have come into
this province; and many more would come, were small advances
made to enable them to commence cultivation; for the desolation
here has introduced a wildness equal to that of an American forest.
The huts here are wretched, but the people have already cleared
some ground. Throughout the forests of Soonda, tigers and wild
buffaloes are very numerous, but there are no elephants.
The reservoir here has been a very fine one, and never becomes
dry; but it is now so filled with bushes and long grass, that to put
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CHAPTER
XVII.
March 11.
Face of the
country*
' 1
11
|j
i
i 1
d
1
1 i
i
1
Carat/ Hosso-
hull i/.
Irrigation.
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
1 lth March.—I went four cosses to Caray Hosso-hully; that is, the
new village at the tank. The whole country, so far as I saw, was totally
uninhabited, and very few traces of former cultivation were observ-
able. A few narrow vallies seem once to have been under rice. The
higher grounds, I suspect, have been always a forest; although,
from the stateliness of the trees, the soil would appear to be good,
and in its present state much of it is not too steep for the plough,
while no part seems incapable of being formed into terraces, as is
done below the Ghats. In a small portion near Yella-pura, the trees
of the forest were stunted, and from a want of moisture had lost
their leaves ; but in the greater part they were very luxuriant, and
many of the kinds were, to me at least, quite unknown. In my bo-
tanical investigations, however, I had very little success; for the
cutting down one of these trees is a day's work for four or five
natives; and at Yella-pura I could procure nobody that would climb
to bring me specimens. The vast number of ants, indeed, that live
on the trees in India, render this a very disagreeable employment.
Caray Hosso-hully is a miserable village of six houses, collected
by Major Monro as a stage between Yella-pura andSoonda; for, on
his taking possession of the country, the whole way was through a
continued waste. The nearest inhabited place to Hosso-hully is two
cosses distant. The new settlers are Marattahs, by which appella-
tion in the south of India the Sudras of Maharastra DSsam are
known. Since the conquest, many of these people have come into
this province; and many more would come, were small advances
made to enable them to commence cultivation; for the desolation
here has introduced a wildness equal to that of an American forest.
The huts here are wretched, but the people have already cleared
some ground. Throughout the forests of Soonda, tigers and wild
buffaloes are very numerous, but there are no elephants.
The reservoir here has been a very fine one, and never becomes
dry; but it is now so filled with bushes and long grass, that to put