A History of Agriculture in India v2.c86.5

v2.c86.5

Describing the Ghats and the Konkan, Mountstuart Elphinstone observes: ‘The great feature of the country is the range of Siadri, more commonly called the Ghats, which runs along the western part of it thirty to forty miles (48 to 64 km) from the sea; and, though only from 3,000 to 5,000 feet (944 to 1,524 m) high, is made very remarkable by its own peculiarities, and by the difference between the tracts which it divides. On the west, it rises abruptly, nearly from the level of the sea, and on that side presents an almost inaccessible barrier; but on the east, it supports a table-land 1,500 to 2,000 feet (457 to 609 m) high, extending eastward, with a gradual slope to the Bay of Bengal.