On the Indian Hills Or Coffee Planting in Southern India
The book On the Indian Hills Or Coffee Planting in Southern India was written by author Arnold Edwin Lester Linden Here you can read free online of On the Indian Hills Or Coffee Planting in Southern India book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is On the Indian Hills Or Coffee Planting in Southern India a good or bad book?
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225 roots of grasses, which occasionally gave way, and threatened to send us rolling back to the bungalow. But the highest possible point once gained, we were well repaid for our exertions. The Nillacothy Rock, the summit of which is four thousand feet above the sea, presents two perpendicular faces one towards the upland valley of the coffee estates, which is, per- haps, three hundred and fifty feet above the Manalora stream, and forms a most conspicuous object from every part of the " distric...t ; " and the other face, looking due northward, is on the very edge of the ghaut, and has a sharp fall of between eight hundred and a thousand feet a magnificent drop, which can be seen from the railway carriage windows far away on the Palghaut line. Standing as we did at the corner, we had a view such as the eagles only enjoy, and as extensive as the eye could take in. The low- lands stretched away beneath us in a vast chequered plain, mottled with tawny paddy-fields and palm clumps, every little village and Wallenghay nearest of all showing up a tiny grey patch with a framing of emerald green, which we knew to be the broad- leaved bananas in the gardens round the straw- thatched huts.
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