A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.29

v1.c7.29

Notwithstanding the roughness of feature which characterizes the Concan, it is in many parts remarkably fertile. Its breadth, from the sea to the summit of the Syhadree range, is of unequal extent, varying from twenty-five to fifty miles. The top, or tableland, which is, in many places, very extensive, forms part of what the natives call Concan-Ghaut-Mahta,¹ or Concan on the top, to distinguish it from Thul-Concan, or Concan below