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 4): Meteorology of India: an analysis of the physical conditions of India, the Himálaya, western Tibet, and Turkistan (Leipzig, 1866)

GROUP VI: CENTRAL INDIA,
BERAR, ORISSA, MALVA, BANDELKHlNI).

Baitul.

Kokon ada.

Orai.

Chikaldah.

Maghanassi Hill
Mahu (Mhow).
Mathur Hill.

Puri.

Hamirpur.
Hushangabad.
Jablpur
Jhansi.

Galli Parvatum

Sagar.

Samulkottah.

Nagpur.

Narsinghpur.

Naugong.

Sehor.

Sisabaldi.
Vizagapatam.

The territories comprising Bandelkhand, Malva, and Berar, are limited to the
north by the valley of the Ganges and Jamna, to the east by Bahar and Orfssa, to
the south by the Dekhan, and to the west by the hilly ranges of Kajvara. Though
in many parts the elevation is not inconsiderable, its influence upon the depression
of temperature is limited by the gradual and general rising of the ground; and the
position of these provinces in the most central part of India equally contributes to
compensate the cooling effect of their elevation.

The meteorological registers are chiefly those kept by the medical officers; for
describing the climate my brothers Adolphe and Bobert, who crossed these regions
on different routes in 1855-6, also brought me, besides their own observations,
much valuable information from the residents, amongst whom I have to name
Major Scott, Quarter-master-general at Madras for Jablpur, and Mr. Higgins for