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KOTAGHERRY.
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of the jNfeilgherry Hills."""" The book contains a
curious letter from Mr. Bannister, who states that,
after a careful analysis of the Neilgherry water, he
was surprised to find no trace whatever of saline,
earthy, or metallic substance in it.
In 1844-5, Captain H. Congreve, an officer in
the Madras Artillery, wrote in the " Madras Spec-
tator," the Letters upon the subject of the Hills and
their inhabitants, to which we alluded in our last
chapter. His pages are, in our humble opinion,
disfigured by a richness of theory which palls upon
the practical palate, but the amount of observation
and curious lore which they contain makes us regret
that the talented author has left his labours to lie
perdus in the columns of a newspaper. Also, in
1844, a valuable Eeport on the Medical Topography
and Statistics of the Neilgherry Hills, with notices
of the geology, botany, climate and population,
tables of diseases amongst officers, ladies, children,
native convicts, etc., and maps of the country com-
piled from the records of the Medical Board Office,
were published, by order of Government, at Madras.
* The book contains one hundred and forty-four pages, en-
livened with a dozen lithographed sketches, and not enlivened
by descriptions of Poonamalee, Vellore, Laulpett, Bangalore,
and Closepett.
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365
of the jNfeilgherry Hills."""" The book contains a
curious letter from Mr. Bannister, who states that,
after a careful analysis of the Neilgherry water, he
was surprised to find no trace whatever of saline,
earthy, or metallic substance in it.
In 1844-5, Captain H. Congreve, an officer in
the Madras Artillery, wrote in the " Madras Spec-
tator," the Letters upon the subject of the Hills and
their inhabitants, to which we alluded in our last
chapter. His pages are, in our humble opinion,
disfigured by a richness of theory which palls upon
the practical palate, but the amount of observation
and curious lore which they contain makes us regret
that the talented author has left his labours to lie
perdus in the columns of a newspaper. Also, in
1844, a valuable Eeport on the Medical Topography
and Statistics of the Neilgherry Hills, with notices
of the geology, botany, climate and population,
tables of diseases amongst officers, ladies, children,
native convicts, etc., and maps of the country com-
piled from the records of the Medical Board Office,
were published, by order of Government, at Madras.
* The book contains one hundred and forty-four pages, en-
livened with a dozen lithographed sketches, and not enlivened
by descriptions of Poonamalee, Vellore, Laulpett, Bangalore,
and Closepett.
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