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This article has been extracted from <br/>

THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.<br/>	

OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
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''Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value. ''

=Horsleykonda=

Horsley's hill,' so named from Mr. W. D. Horsley, 
a former Collector, who was the first to build on it, about 1870). — 
A small hill in the Madanapalle taluk of Cuddapah District, Madras, 
situated in 13° 39' N. and 78° 25' E., about 9 miles from Madanapalle. 
The original name of the hill was Yenuga-Mallammakonda, and local 
tradition says that it was so called because in olden days a saintly lady 
named Mallamma lived on the top of it and was regularly fed by 
elephants {yenugulii). The hill differs from the rest of those in the 
upland taluks of Cuddapah in that its summit, about 4,100 feet above 
the sea, is covered with vegetation and is not quite bare, as usual. 

Here there is a pretty valley full of trees, on one side of which are 
three bungalows belonging to the Forest department and the mis- 
sionaries of the District. The climate is delightful, being free from 
fever and eighteen degrees cooler than the low country round Cuddapah 
town. The hill was for a long time supposed to be haunted by 
demons ; and when building on it was first begun, it was with the 
greatest difficulty that workmen could be persuaded to go up. Sdmbar, 
hog, bears, and jungle-fowl are found in its ravines, and an occasional 
tiger visits it.