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latter point to Khinchat across the base of the triangle, from the Tadi 

 to the Trisool, again, and inclusively of the legs of the district from 

 Devi Ghaut to Burmandee, up the glens of the Tadi and the Sindhu is 

 six miles ; and from the same point up the Tadi to its junction with 

 the Likhoo, eight miles. The maximum breadth of the entire district is 

 at the base of the triangle just adverted to, and here the distance by 

 the road from Bhalu Dawra to Khinchat is four miles. The mean 

 maximum of breadth however is not above three miles, that of the pla- 

 teau alone between the principal river, two miles. But, in speaking of 

 breadths especially, we should distinguish between those parts which 

 have been called the legs and the body of the district, the legs being the 

 subsidiary vales of the Sindhu and of the Tadi. The former of these, 

 then, from the base of Burmandee to the apex of the Bhaloo ridge, 

 where this glen merges in the larger one of the Tadi, is only from 200 

 to 400 yards wide ; whilst the width of the vale of the Tadi in that 

 portion of it which extends lengthwise from the apex of the Bhaloo 

 ridge to that of Kabilas at Chonghora, is from ^ to | of a mile : and if 

 we distinguish (as well w^e may) the low tract lying on both banks 

 of the Tadi, between the western extremity of the two last named 

 divisions, and the point where the Tadi gets compressed into a mere 

 gully on the upper confines of Belkote, (forming the north-east corner 

 just spoken of inclusively) we have a third tract, which is some 1,200 

 yards in medium breadth. The length, again, of the first of the 

 subdivisions of Nayakote is two miles ; of the second, four miles ; 

 of the third, one mile. All these three are tracts of the same character, 

 that is they are hot, swampy, rice beds on the level of the streams 

 that water them, except in the instance of the glen of the Tadi, which, 

 upon the right bank of the river, possesses a widish strip of land 

 considerably raised above the stream, and running under the Maha 

 Mandal and Nayakote ridges (where the court and chiefs have houses) to 

 where the latter spreads into the chief elevated plain of the district 

 above spoken of. That plain cannot be watered from the Trisool or 

 Tadi by reason of its elevation ; and as the Nayakote ridge, whence 

 it is derived, yields no efficient springs of water, the plain is condemned 

 to exclusive dependence on rain. Every such plain or plateau is, in the 

 language of Nepal, a Tar ; whereas the lower and perpetually water- 

 able tracts, above contradistinguished, are, in the same language, called 



