The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.28

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South of the Nīlgiris is one of the most important features in the geography of Southern India. The western mountains are here breached by the broad Gap of Coimbatore or Pālghāt, giving lowland access from the Carnatic plain to the Malabar coast. The Cardamon hills face the Nīlgiris across this passage, which is about twenty miles broad from north to south, and only a thousand feet above the sea.