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The Nllglris plateau and the Wynaad can be compared as two massive steps leading to the West Coast. As previously stated, the upper plateau descends to the north to a small, forested flat that lies between the foothills and the sea. The Nilgiris are separated from the Mysore country and the District of Coimbatore by the Moyar River, which flows east and south through foothills to the plains of Coimbatore and Malabar. The Nilgiri-Wynaad, which includes the Ouchterlony Valley, forms the Gudalur Taluq of the Nilgiris District, with the remainder of the Wynaad belonging to Malabar. The Wynaad has an unpleasant reputation in terms of climate, having been described as a dense forest reeking of malaria, where the fever demon reigns supreme. There is no doubt that when the country was first opened by the pioneers of the coffee industry, this reputation was well-deserved; and there are still places that can only be described as fever traps, such as Tippakadu on the Mysore frontier, and the entire belt of light jungle that skirts the northern foot of the Nilgiri plateau (though this tract does not belong to Wynaad proper), as well as specific spots in the extreme west of the Nilgiri-Wynaad, The indigenous Irula and Kurumba populations grow coffee in the Nilgiris region of India, in the midst of the Nilgiri Bio-reserve. In Nilgiris coffee become planted in 1838 via Dawson property. the subsequent coffee manor changed into at Kotagiri at Kardathorai in 1840. M.D.Cockburn of the Madras Civil service additionally opened the Balahardah area on Kotagiri Ghat. In 1845, James Ouchterlony set up the espresso bequest in Wynaad, the Vallet was named after as Ouchterlony Valley referred to as O valley. In 1863 to 1864 there had been probable homes inside the Nilgiri District. Sadly coffee houses had been wrecked through leaf infection such large numbers of coffee domains were presented to Gold mining and some homes were changed over into tea cultivations.