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NORTH KANARA DISTRICT

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NORTH See also:KANARA See also:DISTRICT forms See also:part of the See also:southern See also:division of Bombay. The administrative headquarters are at See also:Karwar, which is also the See also:chief seaport. See also:Area, 3945 sq. m.; pop .(1901),454,490, showing an increase of 2 % in the See also:decade. The See also:trade of the interior, which used to pass down to the seaports, has been largely diverted by the opening of the Southern Mahratta See also:rail-way. Along the See also:coast See also:rice is the chief See also:crop, and coco-See also:nut palms are also important. In the upland there are valuable gardens of areca palms, cardamoms and See also:pepper. Rice and See also:timber are exported, and See also:sandalwood-See also:carving and See also:salt manufacture are carried on. The See also:main feature in the See also:physical See also:geography of the district is the range of the Western See also:Ghats, which, See also:running from north to See also:south, divides it into two parts, a See also:lowland or coast See also:strip (Payanghat), and an upland See also:plateau (See also:Balaghat). The coast-See also:line is only broken by the Karwar headland in the north, and by the estuaries of four See also:rivers and the mouths of many smaller streams, through which the salt See also:water finds an entrance into numerous lagoons winding several See also:miles inland. The breadth of the See also:low-lands varies from 5 to 15 miles. From this narrow See also:belt rise a few smooth, See also:flat-topped hills, from 200 to 300 ft. high; and at places it is crossed by lofty, rugged, densely wooded spurs, which, starting from the main range, maintain almost to the coast a height of not less than t000 ft. Among these hills See also:lie well-tilled valleys of See also:garden and rice See also:land.

The plateau of the Balaghat is irregular, varying from 1500 to 2000 ft. in height. In some parts the See also:

country rises into well-wooded knolls, in others it is studded by small, isolated, steep hills. Except on the See also:banks of streams and in the more open glades, the whole is one broad See also:waste of See also:wood-land and See also:forest. The open spaces are dotted with hamlets or parcelled out into rice clearings. Of the rivers flowing eastward from the See also:watershed of the See also:Sahyadri hills the only one of importance is the See also:Wardha or Varada, a tributary of the See also:Tungabhadra. Of those that flow westwards, the four See also:principal ones, proceeding from north to south, are the See also:Kali, Gungawali, Tadri and Sharavati. The last of these forms the famous See also:Gersoppa Falls. Extensive forests clothe the hills,. and are conserved under the rules of the forest See also:department.

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