Report on the medical topography and statistics of Neilgherry Hills / 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 Neilgherry Hills / Compiled from the records of the Medical Board Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    necessary part of the communication. Owing to the great steepness, this ghaut has never been practicable to loaded bandies, but of late, its surface having been restored, it has been occasionally traversed by carts with light weights. At three miles from the foot of the ghaut,runs the Bowany river, over which a bridge was built in 1840, and forms a most useful communication,—besides which there is a wooden bridge on masonry piers, over the Cullar, a tributary of this river, running between it and the foot of the ghaut. Near the former, is the village of Matepollium, from whence di- verge the roads to Coimbatore and Trichinopoly—the former is in very good, and the latter in tolerable order. The Trichinopoly route, was greatly improved in 1839, by the construction of a bridge over the Noyel river, and another bridge was about the same time built over a large jungle stream, between Matepollium and Annoor, the next stage. This communication was once much used by travellers from Madras, but since the opening of the Seegoor ghaut, has been less frequented. There is little or no jungle at the foot of the ghaut, and it has never been found feverish, Up to the year 184], there were no places of accommodation between Coonoor and Matepolliam, a distance of fourteen miles. In that year a chuttrum was built at the Burliar stream, six miles from the summit, and affords a convenient resting place.—At Coonoor, there is a travellers bungalow, and a chuttrum. apap eriae eee From the bridge over the Bowany, above mentioned, a road to the right of the one to Coonoor, leads to the pass of Dimhutty and Kotagherry ; this is very steep and impracticable, but its difficulties were in some measure lessened, in the year 1837. It is still however much complained of, by the native mer- chants resorting to Kotagherry.