Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 2): General hypsometry of India, the Himalaya, and Western Tibet, with sections across the chains of the Karakorúm and Kuenlúen: comprising, in addition to messrs. de Schlagintweit's determinations, the data collected from books, maps, and private communications (Leipzig, 1862)

AREA VI.

KARNATIK AND NILGIRIS, WITH AN APPENDIX ON CEYLON.
Longitudinal, from west to east: -Madras via Bangalur and Utakamand to Kalikat.

This area comprises the southern provinces of the Indian peninsula, and so
completes (with Ceylon as an appendix) the hypsometry of India Proper. At the
southern extremity of the area, the Nilgiris, and the various ranges of the Kunda,
Sispara, and Kotergherri, are the mountain systems of greatest absolute elevation in
India Proper, and, exceeding as they do at several points 8,000 feet, are particularly
well defined and strikingly prominent, on account of their comparatively short distance
from the sea shore on either coast of the peninsula,

The Eastern Grhats are not properly a ridge, though the natives so call the
first step, which is met with to the west of the Karimanal (Koromandel) coast.

The mountain system of Ceylon has a pretty well defined position in the centre
of the island. The Piduru talla galle, its highest peak, attains an elevation of
8,305 feet.

No. 1. PerambAk, 12° 53'* 1; 80° 10'- 9 J, in the Karnatik, 15 miles W. of the sea.
Loc. Hill Station............................ 273 ft. G. T. S.

No. 2. Mallapode, 12° 54''9; 80° 0'-l J, in the Karnatik, 8 miles S. of Punnamalli.
Loc. Hill Station............................ 481 ft. G. T. S.

No. 3. Stripermatur, or Shri Perumbudur, 12° 58'; 79° 56', in the Karnatik,
27 miles W. of Madras.

Loc. Dak bdngalo........................... 144 ft. Schl., Rob.

1, Greiner. 1855, Feb. 18, 10h a.m. A. 29 851; 82 2; 65. Madras 29 973; 79 8; 67. — 2 ft.

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