country is here open and covered for some miles with low jungle. In the neighbourhood the sportsman will meet with partridge, jungle cock, hares, and occasionally cheetas. After the heat of the Carnatic, the climate 88 FALLS OF THE C A VERY of the Mysore is a most pleasing change, and at night a good blanket is found to be very agreeable. Traveller ! the quicker you now can pass over the ground to Bangalore, the better for yourself, and the less cause you will have to complain of ennui. The road lies through a flat country, though sometimes gently undula- ting : scarcely a tree is there to be seen except in solitary topes widely scattered, or a row of cocoa-nut trees lining the street of some miser- able-looking village. Every where are to be seen large masses of bluff rocks, often heaped together in the most extraordinary confusion. The largest place on the road is Colar, where is the Mausoleum of Hyder Ally's mother. At Bangalore let not the traveller expect to find a public bungalow, or within less than fif- teen miles of it on the Madras side, and nine on that of Mvsore. <