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Bengal District Gazetteers. Darjeeling

1947

The ridge continues southward to the level of the plains first as the boundary and then as the top of slopes on the left bank of the Mechi river. [...] The colour and the coldness of the latter are no doubt due to the number of glaciers drained by it : while the Rangit is chiefly supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of the Senchal and Singalila hills and hence its water is warmer and clearer except in the height of the rains. [...] The rivers to the west of the Tista the Mahanadi the Balasan and the Mechi all flow into the Ganges. [...] the dolomite of the Baxa series the limestone bands in the Tertiary rocks and the calcareous tufa deposited by springs at numerous localities chiefly at the junction of the Gondwana and the Tertiary rocks. [...] The magnitude of a. landslip depends on the thickness of the soil-cap the amount of saturation of the soil the steepness of the hillslope the nature of the underlying rocks and the erosive power of the streams and waterfalls in the area.

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Pages
301
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-iii Arthur Dash view
Frontmatter
i-iv Arthur Dash view
Chapter I. Physical Description
1-36 Arthur Dash view
Chapter II. History
37-48 Arthur Dash view
Chapter III. The People
49-88 Arthur Dash view
Chapter IV. Public Health
89-98 Arthur Dash view
Chapter V. Agriculture and Livestock
99-112 Arthur Dash view
Chapter VI. The Tea Industry
113-122 Arthur Dash view
Chapter VII. Forests
123-138 Arthur Dash view
Chapter VIII. Cinchona
139-144 Arthur Dash view
Chapter IX. Occupations Manufactures and Industries
145-158 Arthur Dash view
Chapter X. Trade and Prices
159-178 Arthur Dash view
Chapter XI. Means of Communication
179-204 Arthur Dash view
Chapter XII. Land Revenue Administration
205-234 Arthur Dash view
Chapter XIII. General Administration
235-242 Arthur Dash view
Chapter XIV. Local Self-Government: Description of Urban Areas
243-264 Arthur Dash view
Chapter XV. Education
265-280 Arthur Dash view
Chapter XVI. Gazetteer and Index of Place Names
281-294 Arthur Dash view

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