6 FOOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY. 



east till it is cut by the valley of the Ghatprabha a little to the south- 

 east of Badami. East of the river the spur re-appears and stretches 

 away east-south-east in a line of discontinous hills, which terminate 

 abruptly a few miles east of Gajendragarh, on the western boundary of 

 the Nizam's territory. 



Besides these two principal spurs are a considerable number of others, 

 which start from the watershed of the Ghats, but 

 GliatT°^' ^^^^^ ° ^ which have a much shorter course to run, though 

 in point of height they are often quite equal in 

 importance. The principal of these are the ridg-e dividing the valleys 

 of the Bogavati and Dudh Ganga and the Dudh and Ved Ganga Rivers 

 in the Kolhapur State, and the great ridge stretching from the south 

 side of the Amboli Ghat north-eastward to the well-known Hill-fort of 

 Samangarh, and dividing the upper valley of the Ghatprabha from that 

 of its principal affluent, the Harankashi (Hurruncassi) River. 



Two other important spurs among the minor ones are the Mahi- 

 palgarh ridge, north-west of Belgaum, and the Bailur (Byloor) ridge to 

 the south-west of that place. Both these ridges are very broken in 

 parts. Lastly, there is the Jamboti Spur, south of the headwaters of the 

 Malprabha, which is interesting as being the most southerly mountain 

 mass within the Deccan trap area. 



The spurs which jut out from the Sahyadri mountains into the 



Konkan are very much shorter than those run- 

 Western spurs. 



ning eastward, and, with few exceptions, rapidly 



fall off in height and are lost in the plexus of little hills lying 



between the Ghats and the sea. The highest spurs occur in the 



north of the Goa territory and the southern part of Sawant Wari 



State. They all consist of metamorphic rocks, and some are nearly 



equal in elevation to the general edge of the Ghats, e. p., a very bold 



mountain to the south-west of the Chorleh Ghat, said to be the Salili 



(Saleelee) hill of Atlas sheet 41 . A great height is also attained (retained 



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