Excerpt from Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. 24: Kolh�pur 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 ...
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Excerpt from Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. 24: Kolh�pur 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 ... 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.
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