regard to passes little frequented. The lower part of vestige of a road left after six months, as the vast fare which the Coonoor Ghaut has now become. Be- narrower, it would be insufficient for the great thorough- the Coonoor Ghaut had just undergone repair, before before been repaired, while the head quarters of the them passable. Were the lower part of the Coonoor were removed. sides, roads are apt to crumble and wear away at the corps were at Oatacamund. Without such repairs, number of bullocks and horses constantly moving on it, of the road, it became impassable, till the obstructions the Coonoor Ghaut, which he surveyed in 1830, and the Governor went down, and it had several times This breadth will still make a very good road, * but if it would speedily get into bad order; and often before, from the shelving in of the bank and the wearing away would wear it out. The case is very different with Ghaut not to be widened, there would scarcely be a " Lieutenant Le Hardy is preparing a full plan of to His Excellency Sir Robert O'Callaghan. APPENDIX. 133 enabled him to form a correct opinion on the subject. which will shew the proposed new line ; when finished soon become obstructed, and require repairs to keep I shall have the honor of transmitting it for submission sides, and if made only barely sufficient, they would