MAKE A MEME View Large Image Ryakotta Hill.jpg en This photograph of Ryakotta hill was taken by Linnaeus Tripe in 1858 and is part of a collection entitled 'Photographic Views of Ryakotta and other places in the Salem District with descriptive notes by J A C Boswell ...
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Keywords: Ryakotta Hill.jpg en This photograph of Ryakotta hill was taken by Linnaeus Tripe in 1858 and is part of a collection entitled 'Photographic Views of Ryakotta and other places in the Salem District with descriptive notes by J A C Boswell Esq M C S ' Madras 1858 General view of the hill from below The view represents the hill looking N N W It is about 900 feet high and the table land of the Baramahl is about 1200 or 1300 feet above the level of the sea Tripe was in charge of one of the battalions of the 12th Madras Native Infantry a regiment funded in 1824 and stationed in Madras In 1855 Tripe was commissioned to take photographs for the British East India Company and the Madras Presidency which resulted in six albums one of which was of Ryakotta 1858 http //www europeana eu/portal/search html query rayakota Creator Linnaeus Tripe PD-old-100 Photographs of India by Linnaeus Tripe Historical images of Rayakottai Tamil Nadu in the 1850s Uploaded with UploadWizard 1858 photographs
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