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Mysore - A Gazetteer compiled for Government (Mysore in General)

1897

Francis Buchanan (who subsequently assumed the name of Hamilton) was accordingly deputed in February 1800 1 by the GovernoGeneral the Earl of Mornington afterwards Marquis Wellesley to travel through and report upon the Dominions of the Raja of Mysore and the country acquired by the Company in the late war from the §ultan as well as that part of Malabar which the Company annexed to their [...] The aspect changes with the seasons and what in the dry and cold months when the fields are lying fallow appears a dreary and monotonous prospect speedily assumes under the first operations of the plough the grateful hues of tillage ; which under the influence of seasonable rains give place in succession to the bright verdure of the tender blade the universal green Of the growing crops and [...] fiver systems.—The drainage of the country with a slight exception ds its way to the Bay of Bengal and is divisible into three great river systems ; that of the Krishna on the north the KAN eri on the south the two Pennars and the Palar on the east. [...] From the south of the line the Hemavati (with its affluent the Yagachi) the Lokapavani Shimsha and Arkavati flow into the Kaveri which rising in Coorg and taking a south-easterly course through the country rceives also on the right bank the Lakshmantirtha the Gundal the Kabbani and the Honnu Hole before quitting the territory. [...] Some of these piles are held together in the most extraordinary positions and the blocks composing them are found connected by a felspathic siliceous and ferruginous paste the result of the decay of the upper masses washed down and deposited around the joints by the action of the rain.
government politics public policy
Pages
826
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xv Rice Lewis view
Physical Geography
1-67 Rice Lewis view
Flora
68-173 Rice Lewis view
Fauna
174-207 Rice Lewis view
Ethnography
208-270 Rice Lewis view
History
271-453 Rice Lewis view
Religion
454-487 Rice Lewis view
Language and Literature
488-505 Rice Lewis view
Art and Industry
506-571 Rice Lewis view
Administration
572-798 Rice Lewis view
Appendix
799-802 Rice Lewis view