Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts of India: Their Haunts and Habits from personal observation; with an account of the modes of capturing and taming elephants

Mysore is bounded on the north by the Bombay Collectorate of Dharwar and the Madras Collectorate of Belldry ; on the east and south by other districts of the Madras Presidency ; and on the west by Coorg a dependent province and the Western Ghats. [...] These were the concubines of the rajah of the place and each chose a site for the construction of a lake in the valley. [...] The lowest of the seven was built by the youngest and has the advantage of catching the surplus water from the others. [...] The breezes would be more healthy and the villages cultivating the land below the tanks would be above the level of the dampness and some portion of the former salubrity of the place would be restored. [...] Morlay is a charming place.* The views of the Billiga-rungun hills and the more distant Neilgherries the splendid sheets of water close at hand and the stretches of green rice-fields which they nourish the groves of date-trees and cocoanut-gardens fringing the borders of artificial lakes for My home and headquarters in India are still there.