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GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
means realised. The brochure is now quite out of
date : the bazaar, rates, roads, postage, rent, and
number of houses — all are changed, only remain
the wretched state of the police therein chroni-
cled, and the "fatal facility" of finding bad ser-
vants. In the same year (1834) Dr. Baikie's well
known book,* entitled " Observations on the Neil-
gherries, including an Account of their Topography,
Climate, Soil, and Productions," issued from the
Calcutta press. The original edition consisted, we
believe, of only five hundred copies, and we cannot
but wonder that the book has not yet enjoyed the
' honour of a reprint. Lieut. H. Jervis, of H. M.
62nd regiment, published by subscription, also in
1834, and dedicated to Mr. Lushington, the go-
vernor, a " Narrative of a Journey to the Falls of
Cavery, with an Historical and Descriptive Account
* It commences with a resume of the peculiarities of the
hills, and accounts of the three great stations; proceeds to a
description of the geography and geology, soil and productions,
botany, zoology, and the inhabitants of the Neilgherries, and
discusses at some length the effects of the climate upon the
European constitution, sound as well as impaired. The Ap-
pendix presents a mass of information valuable enough when
the work was published, but now, with the exception of the
meteorological and other tables, too old to be useful. Thirteen
or fourteen years work mighty changes, moral and physical, in
an Anglo-India settlement.
GOA AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.
means realised. The brochure is now quite out of
date : the bazaar, rates, roads, postage, rent, and
number of houses — all are changed, only remain
the wretched state of the police therein chroni-
cled, and the "fatal facility" of finding bad ser-
vants. In the same year (1834) Dr. Baikie's well
known book,* entitled " Observations on the Neil-
gherries, including an Account of their Topography,
Climate, Soil, and Productions," issued from the
Calcutta press. The original edition consisted, we
believe, of only five hundred copies, and we cannot
but wonder that the book has not yet enjoyed the
' honour of a reprint. Lieut. H. Jervis, of H. M.
62nd regiment, published by subscription, also in
1834, and dedicated to Mr. Lushington, the go-
vernor, a " Narrative of a Journey to the Falls of
Cavery, with an Historical and Descriptive Account
* It commences with a resume of the peculiarities of the
hills, and accounts of the three great stations; proceeds to a
description of the geography and geology, soil and productions,
botany, zoology, and the inhabitants of the Neilgherries, and
discusses at some length the effects of the climate upon the
European constitution, sound as well as impaired. The Ap-
pendix presents a mass of information valuable enough when
the work was published, but now, with the exception of the
meteorological and other tables, too old to be useful. Thirteen
or fourteen years work mighty changes, moral and physical, in
an Anglo-India settlement.