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8. Alur Taluq— 



Chippagiri (hill), 1,690'. 



Rama Drug (M.S.Stn.), 2,029'. 



Arrakerra hill (T.S.), 2,127' (Golagatta Konda). 



Siddapan Konda (T.S.), 2,151'. 

 p. Adoni Taluq — 



Adoni Fort hill (T.S.), 2,000'. 



Kamani Kanda (T.S.), 2,101'. 



Hydrography, — The hydrography of Bellary district is remarkably 

 simple, as the whole drainage flows into the Bay of Bengal, and 

 excepting a very few square miles of Raya Drug taluq, which shed 

 their surplus water into the Penner, the whole district lies within the 



The Tungabhadra Dasin °f tne Tungabhadra, which is the chief river 

 rlver ' of the district, and which forms its boundary 



on the west, north-west, and northern sides for a distance of 209 

 miles. Where it first enters the district, at a point 8 miles below 

 the great Harihar railway bridge, it flows at an elevation of 1,730' 

 above sea-level, and 60 miles further down stream, where 

 the Bellary-Dharwar high road crosses the Tungabhadra at the 



ThefalloftheTunga- Sovenhali ferry, the elevation of the river was 

 bhadra valley. determined by the levelling of the Survey 



of India officers to be 1,617' above mean sea-level. At the 

 Wallabapur anicut (weir), 28 miles lower down, the level has fallen 

 to 1,581', at Kampli to 1,200', while at the Madaveram ferry, 

 127 miles below Sovenhalli, the level is only 1,046' above the 

 sea. At the great anicut at Sunkesala, further 33 miles down the 

 river, the height of the river-bed above mean sea-level has sunk 

 down to 948'. Sunkesala lies some 13 miles below the boundary 

 between Bellary and Karnul districts, and the fall between this latter 

 spot and the annikat is far more rapid than that of the 20-mile reach 

 of the river extending westward from the boundary to the Madaveram 

 crossing. The extreme north-east corner of the district must there- 

 fore have an elevation of very close upon 1,000' above sea-level. 



The river, as shown above, skirts the districts for 209 miles, in 

 which it descends 730', if the assumption be correct that it leaves the 

 districts at an elevation of 1,000 feet above sea-level. This would give 



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