few nights in which it does not descend below 48" or 45". In ascending from the Coimbatoor side, the range is probably greater. APPENDIX. 1[3 " It is is not unusual also for persons on their first ar- rival, to complain of slight headaches and sleeplessness, resulting probably from the same internal congestion ; the digestion also does not always keep pace with the increase of appetite produced by the sharp air and ad- ditional exercise, particularly if the new-comer is se- duced by the tempting array of vegetables usually placed before him. "These trifling inconveniences however soon disappear, and with the most moderate degree of circumspection, a healthy European becomes in the course of one or two months perfectly equal to almost any degree of fatigue or exposure ; exertion of either body or mind being attended with none of that depressing languor and ex- haustion so universal in the low country, but producing on the contrary, that feeling of exhilaration and sere- nity which is so justly considered as one of the choicest blessings of a temperate climate. " A most important conclusion appears naturally to arise from the consideration of these facts, namely, the advantages of the cause both to humanity and po- licy that would result from the location on the Hills of European regiments newly arrived in India, whose