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of European vegetables, fruits and excellent food, the carriages and horses are of the best description, and good gigs and chariots, and even a coach-and-four may be hired with dri- 74 FALLS OF THE C A VERY vers that are qualified by art to be enrolled in the Four-in-hand Club of London. I have stated in a former page my intention to offer some further observations on the actual state of the two principal Passes, and I will now do so. In June last, the inhabitants of the low coun- tries brought fish and other supplies up the Khoondah Pass to the pioneers ; and as this in- valuable corps was to resume its labors in No- vember, the road is no doubt finished and the invalid from Bombay, or Calcutta, or Madras, if landed at Calicut, will experience no incon- venience in reaching Oatacamund. A good bungalow has been erected half-way between the top of the pass and Oatacamund, near the Avalanche Hill, amidst some of the most beau- tiful scenery on the Hills, and here two or three families may remain and recruit themselves at their ease, with abundant supplies of every kind procurable from Oatacamund. But from the moment the summit is reached, the climate is

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