ntains close by is very refreshing. gradually rising higher on the is less. I forgot to mention how some of the farm-steadings-if we ruck us to be:-A tiled structure rounded by thatched cottages or v-ricks or corn-stacks nicely trimmed over our climb and are now running MADRAS, Nov. 8. ey was a pleasantly cool one, heavy urs together. It is remarkable how iced the change from our Ceylon 53 (3 feet 3 inches) gauge. In some Indian Railway carriages are more those in Ceylon-they certainly e. But as our train evidently tried or ran at extra speed, the swaying › carriages troubled one a good deal lar Ceylon sections. Early morning try more fitted for pasturage than palmyras more than coconuts disute up to the city. Here it was et in the early morning by two of the Ceylon Observer staff, now t business positions in the city. ut a few hours suffice to give an idea of the sent of this city of nearly half-a-million uch more than Colombo, a place of magnitances; for the residential bungalows are d by far larger compounds, the different of the town are much more apart and the n altogether is of an area of 11 to 12 square Colombo to one of 27 for Madras. The Railon at which we arrived is a very poor ew one is to be built immediately. But the 66 CENTRAL STATION" h we start this afternoon for Bombay is thy of "the third city of India" and might a model for the long-expected Central Station. The abundant rains have made g delightfully green in this usually very bourhood. The number of old-fashioned carriages-almost discarded now in strike one as remarkable. MOUNT ROAD e of a width, shadiness and length incomperior to anything our capital in Ceylon and some of the buildings-Government 7 Courts, Senate House, etc.--are superior; bo has a great advantage in having so ractive blocks of buildings and offices gether in the Fort division, though perblic and mercantile offices here facing the uch as it is or sea-beach, have the in sea-breeze. As to HOTELS o comparison, Madras being far behind M-J bullocks, in carts conveying goods, than with us, and beggars abound at n the other hand, far more evidences osity towards the poor strike one in rest-stands for loads, fountains, -A sign-board near a Church in Mount ith advantage be copied in Colombo to be sent to the deserving. It runs -IN-NEED WOMEN'S WORKSHOP." ce is a great and extensive feature Madras, and the Governor's residence, us grounds, is far above comparison led-up "Queen's House" of Colombo. cemeteries) are a feature in the re a few of the impressions of a though I really ought to be silent ormed a closer acquaintance with ts surroundings. RAICHUR, Forenoon of 9th Nov. associated with a first sight of king Policemen employed along the light blue uniform with yellow gs and handsome turban, fine usefulperhaps now in their cold-weather journey of 350 miles FROM MADRAS ome 15 hours, including stoppages, seems this Madras line is famous rs in India. During the night we climbed a good deal; for in the early ty-when "chota hazri" was handed keen and bracing enough to indicate but nowhere could I get an idea , though the former guessed it might be 00 feet as the next station was, he knew, st on the line. And this reminds me of f complaint with JRRAY'S "HAND-BOOK FOR INDIA,' so little general information about the nd towns en route. Legendary and histornation abounds; every old fort, or temple, field is described; but there is little or besides-nothing about the people, their character of the soil and crops; and the distance of each station from Madras y is carefully given, nothing is said about As regards soil, I see that in the map of GEOLOGICAL FEATURES," 66 of Southern India and Ceylon is put down ean" (gneiss, schists, etc.), except Jaffna acent slice which are "Alluvial" and parts cost up to Madras which are "Alluvial" tic." And on a Basaltic region we now continue right up to and beyond Bombay. are, of course, considerable local peculiart, however, I should tell you that we night at Arkonam, where several local , and then, passing by Cuddapah, to the Mysore, at Gooty and Guntakal, we had › of the BLACK COTTON SOIL can, albeit the appearance here was poor, le to carry heavy crops. At GUNTAKAL JUNCTION the coast. We had a lively time ur's stay at this Junction; for a , with all its impedimenta, was Secunderabad, and the women and Muhammadans, though with some ips of Eurasians-pretty well filled tform space, squatting, cooking and ain next ran down, Northwards to he principal cotton-growing centres far extending plains of black soil s (with evidence of the application ulk), being dotted at intervals, se crags and boulders, later on to castellated summits so charactern. We soon cross into the territory Hyderabad, and at Raichur, where I mentioned at the outset-we are 350 as and at the end of this Company's Being on the 5 ft. gauge, a better kept up than on the S. I. R., but sengers there is not much to choose nes. Soon after leaving Raichur, stna river on a grand iron bridge, long or 3-4ths of a mile. Very running, showing that this part has not as yet shared in the rains en so freely to the South and East. must be a magnificent sight when he banks. We are now apparently ill and have already begun to feel rt of India can be, even at the so-called "cold season." We shall of sea air reach Co get within how er we crossed about 200 miles of |