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itself is teak. The best places for this are some small tracts round Sikkapalli and Akkurn, and the banks of the Saveri, Potéru and siléru rivers. But the Malkanagiri forests as a whole are disappointing, containing little (except to the east of Kondakambéru) but open sapling growth interspersed with wide swamps covered with high and almost impassable grass.
On the whole, therefore, the Jeypore forests, quite apart from their value to the streams which rise in the country, still form, in spite of the treatment they have undergone, a fine property which, if given a chance, will continually increase in value and is consequently well worth conserving in every way possible.
