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No. 3J BOMBAY, JULY 1887. [Vol. II. 



THE WATERS OF WESTERN INDIA. 



Part IV. — Gujarat. 

 (By a Member of the Society.) 



From the Kcrakan northwards to the tropic of Cancer lies the 

 province of Gujarat, bounded on the east, at first by the northern 

 extremity of the Sahyadris, up to the Kondai Bari Pass. Just 

 north of this, the last elbow of the chain turns sharply eastwards 

 to form the plateau of Nizampur ; and for about 25 miles, as the 

 crow flies, the boundary between Gujarat and Khandesh in the val- 

 ley of the Tapti is an imaginary line. I am here using " Khan- 

 desh" as a Geographical expression only. Politically it extends 

 some miles to the westward in a country called the Nowapur Peta. 

 But the most convenient physical boundary mark is the "Haran- 

 pal" (or "Buck's leap") on the Tapti; the more so as we are 

 here dealing with water. This is a rock barrier over which the river 

 forms a cascade in fine weather, though in flood it is said to be 

 merely a rapid. 



All the waters of Khandesh proper pass over this fall, no matter 

 where they come from; but the district officially called Khandesh 

 has some outlying villages on the Deccan plateau, draining into the 

 Godavari, and also includes a tract called the Akrani Pargana in the 

 valley of the Nerbudda (Narmada). 



The Nerbudda also has its " Haran-pal" corresponding to that of 

 the Tapti ; and an imaginary line drawn through the Satpura 

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