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the Gawil or Gawilg-urh hills, which name will be employed to denote 



the rang-e whenever it is necessary to refer to it in the present Memoir. 



Along the extreme western portion of the map, and bordering the 



.„.,,. ^ ^ ^ sea in Guzerat, there is also a rather broad tract of 



Alluvial plain 01 Guzerat 



coast near Sui-at and alluvium due probably to deposits from the waters 

 Broach. i J i 



of the great rivers Taptee, Nerbudda, and Mhye, 



and closely resembling the inland plains in character. It diminishes 



rapidly in breadth south of the Taptee, and_, near Bulsar, the Western 



Ghslts, or more properly, the Syhadree range, may be said to commence at 



„.„ ,, , the north-west corner of the Deccan plateau. High 



Hill ranges north-east ^ '^ 



of Bulsar. ranges, however, stretch thence to the northward, 



and intervene between the flat ground of Khandeish and that of 

 Surat. Between the Taptee and Nerbudda the western-most spurs of the 

 Satpoora range, there known as the Rajpeepla hills, sink gradually towards 

 „.„ ,, o ,r the plain to the westward. North of the Nerbudda, 



Nerbudda. ^g already mentioned, the hills are in general of 



no great height to the west ; the only exceptions being the isolated trap 

 mass of Powagurh, which rising to upwards of 2,000 feet from the plains 

 forms a most striking feature in the landscape near Baroda. 



It will also tend to facilitate the understanding of the following' 



CharactersofNerbudda P^^^' ^^^ ^^^°^<^ proceeding to other subjects, a 

 and Taptee valleys. ygj.y. jj^^gf description of the leading physical fea- 



tures of the Nerbudda and Taptee valleys within the limits of the accom- 

 panying maps be given. 



The great alluvial Nerbudda plain extends along the river for 



Alluvial plain of Ho- ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^est of Hoshungabad, being much 

 shungabad. broader to the south than to the north of the 



river. Near Hindia the Nerbudda enters a more rocky country, covered 

 with jungle, but in which the few hills which occur are still low, while 



* All these distances are measured in a straight line and not along the windings of the 

 river, which would frequently double them, 



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