Calcutta Geographical Review March 1945

The unevenness is due to the presence of ridgeS.' In a traverse from the Sheopuri Lekh in the north to Phulchauki Danda in the south the following topographical features are met with : South of the Sheopuri Lekh runs the l3ura-NilkanthSankhu ridge (4 50o feet).composed of boulder conglomerates on the slope of which stand the villages of BurNilkantho and Sankhu. [...] The stratified rocks of the northert rim and the KapaGokarna ridge dip northward while the dip of the beds forming the southern rim and the Chobhar-Katunji ridge is to the south. [...] The Dhobi Khola and the Vishnumati are the right bank tributaries and the Hanumante the Monohara and the Karma Nasha are the left bank tributaries of the river Bagmati. [...] The cyclone of the Indian seas including the Bay of Bengal the hurricane of the West Indies and the South Pacific and Ale typhoon of the West Pacific and the China Sea—all consist of a vast whirl of rapidly moving air currents surrounding a -calm and relatively small central core forming a vortex. [...] The part of the polar front along the eastern edge of the warm tongue is called the 'warm front ' and the part along the western adge the 'cold front'.