Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war . E-book. Formato Mobipocket Meadows Taylor   -  Meadows Taylor, 2016  - 

Towards the close of a day of intense heat, about the middle of the month of June, 1788, a party consisting of many persons might be seen straggling over the plain which extends southwards from the Fort of Adoni, and which almost entirely consists of the black alluvial deposit familiarly known in India under the name of ‘cotton soil.’