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