commodate four or five families in every house. They construct them after the manner of the Choomeeas and Mugs, that is, on platforms or stages of bamboo, raised about six feet from the ground, and enter them by ladders, or, more frequently, by a single stick, with notches cut in it, to receive the foot: underneath the stages they keep their domestic animals. All these precautions of defence strongly indicate the constant state of alarm in which they live, not only from the quarrels of the Rajahs with each other, but also from the hostile feuds of, the different tribes; not excepting those who are attached to the same Rajah. Depredations on each other's property, and the not giving up of such refugees as may fly from one Parah to another, are the most frequent causes of quarrel, when they carry on a most destructive petty warfare, in which the several tribes are more or less involved, according as the principals are more or less connected among them. On these occasions, when an enterprize is not of sufficient importance to induce the chief to head all the warriors of the Parah, he always selects a warrior of approved valour and address to lead the party to be detached.

THEY always endeavour to surprize their enemy, in preference to engaging him in open combat, however confident of superiority they may be. With that view, when on any hostile excursion, they never kindle a fire, but carry with them a sufficiency of ready-dressed provisions, to serve during the probable term of their absence; they march in the night, proheeding with the greatest expedition, and observing Dhe most profound silence; when day overtakes them, hey halt, and lie concealed in a kind of hammock, Which they fasten among the branches of the loftiest rees, so that they cannot be perceived by any person otassing underneath. From this circumstance of amat uscade the idea has originated, of their living in wees instead of houses. When they have, in this

chips, which they scatter in the winds, for having, as they say, been the cause of the death of their brother. They employ much of their time in the chace, and having no prejudice of cast (or sect) to restrain them in the choice of their game, no animal comes amiss to them. An elephant is an immense prize for a whole Parah. They do not remove their Parahs so frequently as the Choomeeas do their Chooms: the Choomeeas seldom remain longer than two years on the same spot; whereas the Kookies are usually four or five; and when they migrate, they burn their Parah, lest the Gyals should return to it, as they are frequently known to do if the huts are left standing. The Kookies never go to a greater distance from their old ground than a journey of twelve hours, unless compelled to proceed farther, from some particular cause, such as the fear of an enemy, or the want of a proper spot to fix upon.

THEIR great object in selecting a place to settle on, is natural strength of situation, with a sufficiency of good ground near the Parah on which to rear the different grains, roots, and vegetables they wish to cultivate. They cultivate the ground as the Choomeeas do, and in this, as in every other domestick occupation, the female sex bears the weight of the labour, and no rank exempts them from it: the wife of the chief, and the wife of his vassal, work alike in the same field.

A PROPER spot being found on the declivity of some hill contiguous to the Parah, the men cut down the jungle upon it in the month of March, and allow it to remain there until sufficiently decayed to burn freely, when they set it on fire, and thus at once perform the double purpose of clearing away the rubbish, and of manuring the ground with its ashes. The women now dig small holes, at certain distances, in the spot so cleared, and into each hole they throw a handful of different seeds they

POSTSCRIPT.

Since the above has been written, the triangles derived from the side Maumdoor and Poonauk, and brought down westerly as far as Woritty, have been computed, and it appears that the distance between Maumdoor and Woritty, which is common to both series, exceeds the former by 6,9 feet; so that the mean of the two, equal 133485,0 feet, has been taken for obtaining anew both the meridional and perpendicular arcs; the former of which is 574337,04 feet, and the latter 290848,5 feet; whence the degree on the meridian will be had 60495 fathoms nearly, and the degree perpendicular to the meridian at Carangooly 61061 fathoms nearly.

The difference of 6,9 feet is more than what I expected, but it has been occasioned by the great difficulty in getting the angles in the great triangle, Maumdoor, Mullapode, and Poonauk. But as it appears that the side Mullapode and Maumdoor has been in excess, and the side Poonauk and Maumdoor in defect, it must follow that the mean distance of Maumdoor and Woritty, brought out by triangles derived from these two sides, must be very near the truth.

Now this latitude has been made use of to find the latitude of Curnatighur, and the same process has been followed for finding the length of a degree on the perpendicular in the latitude of Carangooly as is here given; and that degree taken, with the easting of the observatory from the meridian of Carangooly to compute the latitude a second time, which came out 12° 32′ 12′′,27, and is here applied for re-computing the perpendicular degree: but the difference is too trifling to affect the difference of longitude, and therefore the degree comes out the same.

It is scarcely necessary to notice, that the distance of the observatory from the meridian of Trivandepoorum being so trifling, no spheroidal correction has been thought requisite for obtaining the latitude of the point M, and much less for that of C.

"His discussion relative to the antiquity of the