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The Imperial Gazetteer of India Coondapur to Edwardesabad

1908

Coonoor Town.—Town and sanitarium in the teluAbof the same name in the Nilgiri District Madras situated in r I° 21’ N. and 76° 48’ E. 6 000 feet above the sea at the south-east corner of the Nilgiri plateau and at the head of the principal pass from the plains. [...] The town"COORG 3 is built in one of the loveliest sites in India on the sides of the basin formed by the expansion of the Jakatala valley at the mouth of a great gorge and surrounded by wooded hills. [...] Within Coorg the Cauvery receives from the south the Kakkabe from Tadiandamol the Kadanurhole in Beppunad and the Kummehole in Yedenalknad ; from the north the Muttarmudi which collects the drainage south of the Mercara ridge and the Chikkahole that of Horar-Nfirokkalnad. [...] The violence of the stream twisted the knots pf the women's cloths round to their backs; and the Coorg women wear them in that fashibn to this day in remembrance (says the Purina) of the first bathing of the Coorgs in the waters of the Cauvery at Valamburi. [...] North of the Changalvas were the Kongalvas who during the eleventh cenairy ruled over the Arkalgid Mink in Mysore and the Yelusavira country in the north of Coorg under the Cholas.
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Pages
412
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
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