Schlagintweit, Hermann von; Schlagintweit, Adolf; Schlagintweit, Robert von: Results of a scientific mission to India and High Asia: undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII, by order of the court of directors of the hon. East India Company (Band 2): General hypsometry of India, the Himalaya, and Western Tibet, with sections across the chains of the Karakorúm and Kuenlúen: comprising, in addition to messrs. de Schlagintweit's determinations, the data collected from books, maps, and private communications (Leipzig, 1862)

AREA IV.

CENTRAL INDIA.
Meridional, from north to south: from the Ganges via Nagpur and Chanda to Kormga.

The principal portion of this extensive area is occupied by the Vindhia and
Satpura range and the entire river system of the Godaveri. With the exception of
a few isolated, well-defined crests of some extent, its characteristic features are the
plateaux.

Amarkantak, the most important of them, forms the watershed of the Mahanadi,
Son, Tons, Johilla, and Narbada. The rivers, though large and full of water even half
way from their mouth, are very irregular in the slopes of their beds, and are disturbed
by frequent rapids, so that owing to these impediments, increased still further by the
rocky character of the river beds or their banks, navigation is limited for the most
part to the lower portions of their course.

For all the central parts of this area, the height of the land varies but little,
even the valleys being on an average above 1,500 feet. But notwithstanding the
generally high elevation of the district, its central position makes it a zone of maxi-
mum heat; and indeed, during the time of summer it belongs to the hottest regions
of India, even of the globe.

No. 1. SANICHEI, 26° 23/-5; 78° 12'-1 J, in Bandelkhand, N. of Gvalior.
Loc. Hill Station............................ 910 ft. g. T. s.

No. 2. Jhankri, 26° 18'"9; 78° 31' "3 J, in Bandelkhand, 12 miles W. of the Send.
Loc. Hill Station........................... 710 ft. G. T. s.

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