aboriginal race, inhabiting the summit of the Neilgherry Hills, was fitly dedicated to you, by whom so much has been done for the pros- perity of the European settlement established there. A similar reason would have pointed you out to me as the desired patron of my sketches and description of the Falls of the Cavery, because there also the difficulties of the Tra- 513818 I IR SFTS DEDICATION. veller have been removed, as 1 have had the gratification of experiencing, by the prudent acts of the Government of Fort St. George during the time when you presided over it. But I have a strong additional reason for dedi- cating this little work to you, because I owe it to your kindness, and that of Mr. ROBERT HERBERT CLIVE, that I have had the means of making this publication a Guide to the Neilgherries as well as to the Falls. If the Indian or English reader shall expe- Y / rience but a small portion of the pleasure which I have had in completing these sketches, ^during the tasdium of a long voyage from &~J&