from the utmost violence of the western mon- soon. The truth of what I have here stated regard- ing the climate of the Hills, the reader will find in the Appendix abundantly established by Extracts of Reports and Returns sent in by Dr. Baikie, the Superintending Medical Officer on the Neilgherries ; and they amply confirm all the previous Reports. FALLS OF THE CAVERY CONCLUSION. THE different important events connected with nearly all the following views having been so often and so profusely detailed by various writers ; and the country en route being so scanty in pictorial interest, except what I have selected, I shall not encumber my readers with thrice-told tales of sieges or of hard-fought- battles, or with a tedious description of the sandy and dried-up plains of the Carnatic, or of the arid and wild appearance of the country between the Pass of Nakanairy and Bangalore, but shall merely add to each drawing a brief explanation of the place it is intended to re- present. I have been induced to add these views, from the idea that there are many persons both