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principal mountains are the Anamalai Hills, in the south of the district, rising at places to a height of between 8000 and 9000 ft. In the west the See also:

PALGHAT

Palghat and Vallagiri Hills See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a connecting See also:

LINK

link between the Anamalai range and the See also:

NILGIRIS, THE, or NEELGHERRIES (Blue Mountains)

Nilgiris, with the exception of a remarkable See also:

gap known as the Palghat Pass. This gap, which completely inter-sects the See also:

GHATS, or GHAUTS (literally " the Landing Stairs " from the sea, or " Passes ")

Ghats, is about 20 M. wide. In the north is a range of See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive See also:

TRAP (0. Eng. treppe or traepee, properly a step, as that or which an animal places its foot and is caught, cf. Ger. Treppe flight of stairs)

trap-hills known( as the See also:

CAUVERY, or KAVERI

Cauvery See also:

CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

chain, extending eastwards from the Nilgiris, and rising in places to a height of 4000 ft. The principal See also:

rivers are the Cauvery, Bhavani, Noyii, and See also:

AMRAVATI, or AMARAVATI

Amravati.

Numerous canals are cut from the rivers for the purpose of affording artificial See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation, which has proved of immense benefit to the country. Well and tank See also:

WATER

water is also largely used for irrigation purposes. Coimbatore district was acquired by the British in 1799 at the See also:

close of the See also:

war which ended with the See also:

DEATH

death of Tippoo. In 1901 the population was 2,201,782, showing an increase of 1o% in the preceding decade. The principal crops are See also:

millet, See also:

rice, other See also:

food grains, See also:

PULSE

pulse, oilseeds, cotton and See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco, with a little coffee. Forests See also:

COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover nearly 11 million acres, yielding valuable See also:

TIMBER

timber (See also:

TEAK

teak, See also:

SANDAL (from the Latinized form of Gr. vavb4Atov or vav&aAov: this probably represents the Persian sandal, slipper; it is not to be referred to Gr. stasis, board)

sandal-See also:

wood, &c.), and affording grazing-ground for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle. There are several factories for pressing cotton, and for cleaning coffee, oil-cake presses, tanneries and saltpetre refineries. Cereals, cotton, See also:

FOREST

forest products, cattle and hides, and See also:

brass and See also:

COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper vessels are the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief exports from the district. The south-west See also:

LINE

line of the Madras railway runs through the district, and the South See also:

INDIAN

Indian railway (of See also:

METRE ((terpuc?, sc. rFxvf, from Gr. Or poi', measure)

metre See also:

GAUGE, or GAGE (Med. Lat. gauja, jaugia, Fr. jauge, perhaps connected with Fr. jale, a bowl, galon, gallon)

gauge) joins this at See also:

ERODE

Erode.

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