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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... in the Anantaplir and Dharmavaram taluks which feed the streams by which the tanks of Anantaplir and Shinganamalla are filled. A preliminary demarcation has been made, and the formation of a reserve has been sanctioned by Government on the range of hills which separates the taluks of Tadpatri and Anantaplir. An account of this forest will be found in paragraphs 3 to 11 of Colonel Beddome's report of the 30th March 1880. After my visit I submitted (on the 11th January) to the Collector a report, the substance of which, with a few modifications, is embodied in the following remarks: --Proposed Muchukota Reserve. 452. The proposed reserve occupies a portion of the hill range, which extends from the Penner river southwards. The rock is stratified; calcareous rocks alternating with red sand-stone. The nature of the rock explains the good growth on these hills of the Hardwiclsia binata (yepi or narepu), which is not found on the granite and gneiss hills in the vicinity of Anantaptir. The contrast between the green yepi forest, which clothes the lower slopes, chiefly on the east side of the range, and the other hills both east and west, which are perfectly bare, is most remarkable. 453. The distribution of Hardwickia on this range is not, however, uniform. The tree is abundant on the undulating ground which forms the outskirts of the hills on the east side, and over a large area of low hills in the centre of the reserve, between the cart-track which leads from Sanjivapuram to Venkatampalli and the high road from Anantaplir to Tadpatri, as well as north and south of these two roads. Further south yepi is scarce, but it re-appears, and is said to be abundant on the hills west of Kummanamalla village. _ On the higher...