" A wide circumference ; full many a league " In compass round ; woods, rivers, hills and plains, " Large provinces ; enough to gratify " Ambition's highest aim, could reason bound " Man's erring will." SOMERVILLE. NUMEROUS herds of elephants traverse the jungles at the base of the Neilgherries ; and though an elephant-hunt cannot be attended without great risk of fever, it has nevertheless been sometimes witnessed by parties from the Hills, who have for the most part taken the precaution of sleeping at some little distance from the scene of action, where the country is more open than at the Coopum, (an enclo- sure into which the elephants are driven,) which is generally in the thickest part of the jungle. It is now about seven years since the govern- 40 FALLS OF THE CAVERY, ment, on the representation of the collector of Coimbatoor, furnished him with a party of ele- phant-hunters from Chittagong, and the prac- tice of these people has, with a little alteration, been acted upon with great success to the pre- sent time, though the original hunters returned to their native country after the first year.