Gazetteer Of The Bombay Presidency Kolhapur

Author : James Macnabb Campbell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282912130
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. 24 written by James Macnabb Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. 24: Kolhápur The block of Kolhapur below the Sahy6dris includes the land! Of forty-three villages and forms a belt about thirty miles from north to south and ten to fifteen broad. Except a few rugged villages at the foot of the Bevda pass, about twentyofour miles south; west of Kolhapur, most of the kolhapur-konkan is composed of level tablelands. These uplands were formerly thickly wooded with teak and other useful trees, but all the valuable timba' has long been out leaving bars or scrub-clad hillsides. The village sites as a rule are well wooded and the village homesteadsare surrounded by groves of mango, jack, and undi trees, and in Pomburle, Koklsre, Khambale, and Nilnivde b cocoa and betel palms. The climate is healthy, though in A r' and May the heat is oppressive. The two outl mg blocks in t e east, Raybag and Torgal, lie far within the its of the Deccan plain. The country 18 tame and level with a few ranges of low hills, the whole very bare of trees except some clusters of mangoes and bdbhubnear village sites and on the banks but the und is fertile and flat-roof and are surrounded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.