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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SIWALIK HILLS , a name given to the See also:

FOOT

foot-hills of the Hima-Iayas in See also:

DEHRA

Dehra Dun See also:

DISTRICT

district of the See also:

UNITED

United Provinces of See also:

India and in Nahan See also:

state and See also:

Hoshiarpur district of the See also:

PUNJAB

Punjab. The range runs parallel with the Himalayan See also:

SYSTEM

system from See also:

HARDWAR, or HURDWAR

Hardwar on the See also:

GANGES (GANGA)

Ganges to the See also:

banks of the See also:

BEAS

Beas, with a length of 200 M. and an See also:

AVERAGE

average width of 10 m. The See also:

ELEVATION

elevation varies from 2000 to 3500 ft. Geologically speaking the Siwaliks belong to the See also:

TERTIARY

tertiary deposits of the See also:

OUTER

outer Himalayas, and are chiefly composed of See also:

low See also:

SANDSTONE

sandstone and See also:

CONGLOMERATE (from the Lat. conglomerare, to form into a ball, glomus, glomeris; so also the general term " conglomeration " for a miscellaneous collection of things, gathered together in a mass)

conglomerate hills, the solidified and upheaved detritus of the See also:

GREAT

great range in their See also:

REAR

rear The inter-mediate valley lying between the outer hills and the See also:

MUSSOORIE, or MASURI

Mussoorie mountains is known as the Dehra Dun (or Dehra valley) and contains a considerable See also:

EURASIAN

Eurasian See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony and some See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

TEA (Chinese cha, Amoy dialect t€)

tea-planters. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal pass is that of Mohan by which the See also:

main road from See also:

SAHARANPUR

Saharanpur to Dehra and Mussoorie traverses the range. The Siwalik formation (distinguished for its extraordinary See also:

WEALTH

wealth of palaeontological remains) is found on the See also:

North-See also:

West Frontier occupying much the same position relatively to the Suliman range as it does to the Himalayas, i.e. it faces the plains and becomes the outermost See also:

wall of the hills.

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