14 OUR "SOUTH INDIAN" ESTATE.
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of things that could never be made clear by writing. In this manner
incorrect impressions would be removed. This feeling my new comrades
shared with me.
These
expressions of good feeling were very pleasant. They caused me to
enter upon the duties of my mission with a consciousness that all
concerned, directors, proprietors, and employes, must derive benefit in
more ways than one from the results of my visit to the properties.
The
site of Mango-Tree Bungalow, the mining captain's quarters, had been
admirably chosen. It commands the whole sweep of country round, and is
close to the main operations of the South Indian Company. Facing the
south-west, on the left, is the high ridge of the Devala Moyar estate.
Nearer again, the eye glances over "Richmond," "Rose-dell," St. Thome:
a series of rounded hills; whilst towering right in front rises the
bluff head of Hadia-betta, the south-eastern side of the Glenrock
Valley receding in the distance. The eye irresistibly followed the
course of these far-off gently swelling plains to the sea, seventy
miles away. On the right, above the opposite slope of the valley, is
the tableland of Wentworth, and the country towards Cherambadi. This is
about the same general level as our property, though it is broken up in
a perfect sea of hills, and is set off by a background of the
cloud-capped peaks of the Velery Mulla range of mountains. These
