WD566

26 drawings (60 folios) of views in the Palni Hills. 1862.

Printed titles and descriptions and some drawings inscribed with titles in pencil.

Pen-and-ink; size of volume 20 by 25 ins.

Deposited c.1866.

f.3 ‘1. View of the Entrance to the Hill Village of Pullangee.’

f.5 ‘2. Distant view of Pulni Mountains.’

f.7 ‘3. View of the higher Pulnis.’

f.9 ‘4. View in the Perreakolum Pass.’

f.11 5. Another view of the Periyakulam Pass. Hamilton and his horse in the foreground.

f.13 ‘6. View in the valley of Perrumbookarnal.’ Hamilton and his gun-bearer in the foreground stalking ibex. Reproduced: ‘Records of sport,’ plate xv.

f.15 ‘7. View of the Settlement of Kudaikarnal.’

f.17 ‘8. Distant View of Kudaikarnal.’

f.21 ‘9. Panorama of the Plateau in the Neighbourhood of Kudaikarnal.’ Pillar Rocks and Hamilton with servant and dog pursuing a stag.

f.23 ‘10. View of the Pillar Rocks.’

f.25 ‘11. View of the great cave at the Pillar Rocks.’

f.27 ‘12. View to the South West beyond the Pillar Rocks’. Deer.

f.29 ‘13. View of the Gundair and Pombarry valleys.’ A herd of bison in the foreground.

f.31 ‘14. View of Vilputty,’ 3 miles N.E. of Kodalkanal.

f.35 ‘15. Panorama of 'the Plateau of Poortoor.’

f.37 ‘16. View of Pullangee.’

f.40 ‘17. View of Pombarry.’

f.43 ‘18. View of the Entrance to the Village of Pombarry.’

f.45 ‘19. A Street in the hill village of Pombarry.’

f.47 ‘20. View of'the Pombarry Valley.’

f.49 ‘21. Wooded Valley between Kodaikarnal and Pombarry’. Deer in the foreground.

f.51 ‘22. Distant View of Kokul.’ A villager grazing cows in the foreground.

f.53 ‘23. View of Kokul Village.’

f.55 ‘24. Distant View of the Hills near Ettoor or the Eight Villages.’ Hamilton with his sketch-book, camp chair and two attendants.

f.57 ‘25. View of the entrance to the village of Manavanor.’

f.59 ‘26. View of Perumal Mullay and the lower Pulnis’. Hamilton looking through his field-glasses; a gun-bearer and dead deer in the foreground.