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AREA V.
DEKHAN AND MAISSUK.
Diagonal, from north-west to south-east: Bombay via Puna and Bellari to Madras.
The general character of the area is mountainous, including as it does the
principal elevations of the Dekhan and a great part of Maissur. The only low country
is on its eastern border, where a broad belt of alluvial soil runs along the Karimanal
(Koromandel) coast, forming one of the richest districts of India. To the west the
Ghats constitute the principal feature, and present a range of mountains rising abruptly
above the Konkan, with a very steep western slope, and sending out many spurs and
plateaux towards the Dekhan. This range is intersected by several passes, or ghats,
of which the Bhor ghat and the Tal ghat (see p. 195) must be mentioned as the most
remarkable. A railway, connecting Puna with Bombay, leads over the Bhor ghat.
The principal river of this area is the Krishna, which takes its rise near the
Mahabaleshvar plateau, at a height of 4,110 feet. The highest peak in the Dekhan,
the Kalsubai, attains a height of 5,410'feet (see p. 195).
No. 1. Assiei, 19° 42'; 72° 44, in the Konkan, 18 miles N.E. of Malum.
Loc. Fort on the island....................... 1,7.13 ft. Bomb. Cal.
No. 2. BASSIN, 19° 2'; 72° 49', in the Konkan, N. of Bombay.
Loc. Top of the church....................... 509 ft. Bomb. Cal.
No. 3. Bombay, 18° 53'-5; 72° 49'-l J (referred to the Observatory), in the Konkan.
Loc. 1) Cistern of the barometer at the Government Observatory 38 ft. Fergusson.
„ 2) Top of the spire of St. Thomas's Church....... 168 „ Bomb. Cal.
DEKHAN AND MAISSUK.
Diagonal, from north-west to south-east: Bombay via Puna and Bellari to Madras.
The general character of the area is mountainous, including as it does the
principal elevations of the Dekhan and a great part of Maissur. The only low country
is on its eastern border, where a broad belt of alluvial soil runs along the Karimanal
(Koromandel) coast, forming one of the richest districts of India. To the west the
Ghats constitute the principal feature, and present a range of mountains rising abruptly
above the Konkan, with a very steep western slope, and sending out many spurs and
plateaux towards the Dekhan. This range is intersected by several passes, or ghats,
of which the Bhor ghat and the Tal ghat (see p. 195) must be mentioned as the most
remarkable. A railway, connecting Puna with Bombay, leads over the Bhor ghat.
The principal river of this area is the Krishna, which takes its rise near the
Mahabaleshvar plateau, at a height of 4,110 feet. The highest peak in the Dekhan,
the Kalsubai, attains a height of 5,410'feet (see p. 195).
No. 1. Assiei, 19° 42'; 72° 44, in the Konkan, 18 miles N.E. of Malum.
Loc. Fort on the island....................... 1,7.13 ft. Bomb. Cal.
No. 2. BASSIN, 19° 2'; 72° 49', in the Konkan, N. of Bombay.
Loc. Top of the church....................... 509 ft. Bomb. Cal.
No. 3. Bombay, 18° 53'-5; 72° 49'-l J (referred to the Observatory), in the Konkan.
Loc. 1) Cistern of the barometer at the Government Observatory 38 ft. Fergusson.
„ 2) Top of the spire of St. Thomas's Church....... 168 „ Bomb. Cal.