A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c7.37

c7.37

The coast of the Northern Circars, the historic Golconda coast, recalls in a measure some of the features of the west coast—the parallelism between the ghats and the coastline, the nearness of the edge of the ghats to the sea which restricts the coastal lowland to a narrow elongated strip, with spurs from the ghats descending the scarp face and jutting out to sea to end in headlands like the Dolphin's Nose. The ghats are fairly densely clothed with forest while the flat lowland is covered with scrub jungle. A succession of short streams descend the ghats and run directly out to sea. Important features of this region are the Chilka lake and the double delta of the Godāvari and Krishna embracing the Colair lake.