Ootacamund
or UTAKAMAND, the chief town in the Neilgherry Hills, the principal sanatorium of the Madras presidency, and the summer headquarters of the governor of Madras. It stands on a plateau, in an amphitheater surrounded by hills, 7,228 feet above the from the nearest railway station on the sea, 350 miles from Madras city, and 24 Madras line. There are a public library the children of British soldiers, botanical (1859), the Lawrence Asylum (1858) for gardens, the Breeks Memorial and Basel Mission buildings. Pop. 18,829.