Wynaad, or WAINÁD

Wynaad, or WAINÁD (better Vayanád), a highland district, mainly a tableland, in the Western Gháts, about 3000 feet above sea-level, and belonging partly to the Nilgiri district, partly to Malabar. The name is well known in England through the amriferous quartz almost universally distributed throughout the region, which began to be worked as a gold-field about 1865, and, after absorbing in 1876-86 millions of British capital, failed to fulfil the extravagant expectations formed.