Report on the medical topography and statistics of Coorg / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office.

  • Madras State
Date:
1844
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Credit: Report on the medical topography and statistics of Coorg / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    growth of ages, which are found springing out of the walls. No satisfactory reason for their construction has yet been assigned ; defence could not have been the only object, as they face one another in certain places, and in others, three or four ranges are found directly behind each other. Subjoined are the elevations above the sea, of some of the more remarkable points in Coorg. Poopagherry.......«.. 5 eee. ae $s one een eee ee Tadiandemole near Nakanah..........+.-+008: Me PK | Merikara. (25: \0 a hie ac oe ELI RS Ok MR 3: »» 4,006 Nakanaad palace (B. W.).....esee0. Fone Fee » 3,797 Soorlaby, northern range (B. W.).... 2 esses 3 4,027 Bittatoor table land, (W. S. W. of Merkara (BW Jed ait ob baad Scoift sale aie qheaalie pus ty Bs eee Veerajunderpett palace (B. W.).- Ve seis! paswid,aeo Highest point of great road from Markateg to ies serpett,(La)tes. beet tite Cameo joe Bl 3 mile stone Do. (L.)..... oA Gh aaa vido, b's aire gre ain ls eamneD Bhoeekerry ‘hilo (iy. tewae © sos sie,» aeiels » 4,000 Praserpett DI0t Cid sue nee aatas on chee «Merle yeeey sane Coloor Betta (near Frazerpett) (L.)...-...ee0+- 99 4,000 Rivers The principal river of Coorg is the Cauvery, by means of which and its tributaries, nearly four-fifths of the country is drained. The only river of considerable size flowing to the westward, is the Burrepollay, which rises in Kiggutnaad, and descending abruptly through a series of deep and rocky ravines, in one of which it forms a superb cascade 2 or 300 feet high, flows along the base of the hills, by the Huggala ghaut, where it is known as the stony river, and disembogues itself into the sea a few miles north of Cannanore. The Cauvery rises near the top of a hill, on the very verge of the western ghauts, and descending through the great valley between Merkara, and Nakanaad, makes a sudden turn tothe north, and flows for 20 or 30 miles along the (B. W.) ascertained by boiling water, (L.) by levels taken in constructing the new road.