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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
adopting this plan, by informing me, that the country through
which I must have passed had become so desolate, that I should find
great difficulty in procuring a subsistence.
22d June.—I went twelve miles, by an excellent road, to Mala-
paddy. The country, like that near Krishna-giri, consists of a plain,
in which are scattered high detached rocky hills. The soil of the
plain is poor, and much of it is waste, and overgrown with brush-
wood. Malapaddy, although placed in the heart of the Bdra-mahdl,
never belonged to that province, and has long been annexed to
Arcot. The Nabob has given it in Jaghire to the husband of one of
his sisters. It is a very sorry place. Here the language of the
Tamuls is almost the only one that is spoken.
23d June.—I went about fifteen miles to Tripaturu. The plains
on this day's route are wider than those I saw yesterday, and are
also better cultivated. The hills are lengthened out into ridges.
Tripaturu is a large open village, containing some good houses
neatly roofed with tiles. This is to be seen no where in Karnata,
and these roofs have been probably constructed by workmen from
Madras, where a long intercourse with Europeans has greatly im-
proved the natives in all the arts. At this place an attempt was
made by Colonel Read to introduce the manufacture of sugar,
and the rearing of silk-worms. A Mr. Light, from the JVest Indies,
and a native of Bengal, were procured to superintend ; but both
have failed.
24th June.—I went fourteen miles to Vanamhady, a village
fortified with a mud wall. It looks well, as it is surrounded by
trees, of which the Bdra-mahdi 'has in general very few, and as it is
situated on a fine plain surrounded by hills. It is placed on the
banks of the Palar, or milk river, which in the Sanskrit is called
Cshira Nuddi. It has its rise near Nandy Durga, or the Bull-castle,
and in the rainy season frequently commits great devastation. It
rises highest when the rains prevail on the coasts of Coromandel.
At present its channel is apparently quite dry ; but, by digging z
461
CHAPTER
XX.
June 21.
Jane 22.
Appearance
of the
country.
Malapaddy.
June 23.
Tripaturu.
June 24.
Vanambady.
,nv.na;
m°nth hi,
K< higher i
at nooi
ier> speakar
The road gi
defile
7 giatlt 1'
ii, or Pfl
name of I
plain, inst
ituated is*
;)lv bai
:soil,*,'
e has been *
nient ho«** I
-eather at *;'.
ring *&*
ith Cap1*
•;'^^
<«fl
dP
;--"•
■crff
J'
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
adopting this plan, by informing me, that the country through
which I must have passed had become so desolate, that I should find
great difficulty in procuring a subsistence.
22d June.—I went twelve miles, by an excellent road, to Mala-
paddy. The country, like that near Krishna-giri, consists of a plain,
in which are scattered high detached rocky hills. The soil of the
plain is poor, and much of it is waste, and overgrown with brush-
wood. Malapaddy, although placed in the heart of the Bdra-mahdl,
never belonged to that province, and has long been annexed to
Arcot. The Nabob has given it in Jaghire to the husband of one of
his sisters. It is a very sorry place. Here the language of the
Tamuls is almost the only one that is spoken.
23d June.—I went about fifteen miles to Tripaturu. The plains
on this day's route are wider than those I saw yesterday, and are
also better cultivated. The hills are lengthened out into ridges.
Tripaturu is a large open village, containing some good houses
neatly roofed with tiles. This is to be seen no where in Karnata,
and these roofs have been probably constructed by workmen from
Madras, where a long intercourse with Europeans has greatly im-
proved the natives in all the arts. At this place an attempt was
made by Colonel Read to introduce the manufacture of sugar,
and the rearing of silk-worms. A Mr. Light, from the JVest Indies,
and a native of Bengal, were procured to superintend ; but both
have failed.
24th June.—I went fourteen miles to Vanamhady, a village
fortified with a mud wall. It looks well, as it is surrounded by
trees, of which the Bdra-mahdi 'has in general very few, and as it is
situated on a fine plain surrounded by hills. It is placed on the
banks of the Palar, or milk river, which in the Sanskrit is called
Cshira Nuddi. It has its rise near Nandy Durga, or the Bull-castle,
and in the rainy season frequently commits great devastation. It
rises highest when the rains prevail on the coasts of Coromandel.
At present its channel is apparently quite dry ; but, by digging z
461
CHAPTER
XX.
June 21.
Jane 22.
Appearance
of the
country.
Malapaddy.
June 23.
Tripaturu.
June 24.
Vanambady.