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and Boad Zemindaries. 



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CopJiguration.~\i embraces a section of the central ridge of the 

 line of eastern ghauts, with a portion of its ramifications, its includ- 

 ed and connected valleys, aud dependent hill groups. 



Of this region, the northern and western parts are comprised in the 

 hydrographical valley of the Mahanuddy, which bounds it on the 

 north, dividing the mountain chain. Its southern limit forms the crest 

 of the valley of Kimedy; its eastern and south-eastern portions be- 

 long to that of Goomsur. 



The direction of the spinal ridge is a few degrees to the east of 

 north. 



It forms an expanded table-land from twenty -five to thirty -five 

 miles in breadth, with an average elevation of 2000 feet. Its western 

 slope, and its north eastern angle, are imperfectly surveyed. Its surface 

 is traversed by frequent ridges generally parallel to its great facades, 

 their crests ranging in altitude from 300 to 1200 feet. The observed 

 portions of its ridges are elevated, and on the eastern side occasionally 

 sustained by lines of bold summits. 



The ridge of partition, which divides the waters of the valley of 

 the Mahanuddy, from those which flow to Kimedy and to Goomsur, 

 crosses the plateau in an irregularly waved line, a few minutes to the 

 south of the 20th parallel. 



From the western limit of the table-land, the Col runs above the 

 sources of the Tale-nuddee, towards the Nagpore frontier. On the 

 east, it becomes identified with the bounding ridge of the plateau for 

 twenty miles of its course northward from 20o 2' — when it descends, 

 over Pussara and Gattigooda, to rise soon after to an equal elevation 

 in the mountain group of Ambozara. 



From the western portion of the ridge of hydrographical partition, 

 three widely branched valleys conduct the Salki, the Baug-nuddee and 

 the Tale-nuddee northward to the Mahanuddee between Boad and 

 Sohnpore. Within the same space flow the Gohera, of shorter course^ 

 and, a little to the eastward of Boad, the Bulwat. 



From the eastern portion of the great Col, a similar series of 

 channels, those of Pussara, Gattigooda, Kookloobah, ^s:c. bear the 

 drainage of its southern slope to Goomsur. 



1 ne Bortungia river, rising at Calingia, is to be traced along the 

 northern declivity of the parting ridge into Duspullah, whence it flows 

 N. E. to the great stream. The remaining part of the northern slope 

 of the eastern section of the dividing ridge, with the southern acclivity 

 of its western portion, remain to be observed. 



