Picturesque Mysore

It is a land of lofty mountains and primeval forests ; it is the special haunt of the tiger the bison and the wild elephant ; the peculiar home of sandal and teak; the chief garden in India for coffee cultivation and it yields by far the largest quantity of gold of any country in the East. [...] The administration of the latter has been made over to the British Government for purposes of a Cantonment and the Station is the headquarters of the Madras District Area of the Indian Army. [...] Around the exterior base of the temple are sculptured the incidents of the epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and above it are portrayed the gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon with various kinds of ornamental canopies above them. [...] The largest of the cascades is called the Raja the next the Roarer the third the Rocket and the last the Rani. [...] The bracelet on the hand of the figure with the parrot can be moved as also the head ornament of the dancing Saraswati thus testifying to the marvellous skill of the sculptor.