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Gazetteer Of The Bombay Presidency, Thana Vol. 13 Part 1 (1882), 1882
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1THANA.
3CHAPTER I.
5DESCRIPTION.
7Tha'na, lying between 18° 42' and 20° 20' north latitude and 72° 45' and 73° 48' east longitude, has an area of about 4250 square miles, a population of over 900,000 souls or 212 to the square mile, and a realizable land revenue of £138,107 (Rs. 13,81,070).
9In the south, for about eighty of its entire length of 105 miles, Thána varies from sixty-five to thirty-seven miles in breadth, and includes the whole belt of land between the Sahyádri hills and the sea. North of this, it suddenly contracts to a strip of coast land about twenty-five miles long, which gradually narrows from twenty to five miles in breadth. In the extreme north, for about thirteen miles, the district is separated from the Portuguese territory of Daman and the district of Surat by the Kálu and Damanganga rivers. Then the line, with Daman to the east, runs south for about twenty-eight miles, when it turns about eighteen miles to the east, and there meets the lands of Dharampur and Násik. From this, for about forty-five miles south-east to near the Tal pass, Thána is separated from Násik, at first by some isolated peaks the western end of the range to which Anjaniri, Trimbak, and Harsh belong, and afterwards by no well marked boundary, the east of Mokháda and the west of Násik being almost on the same level. From the Tal pass, for about sixty miles to the south-east and then forty miles to the south-west, the Sahyádri hills separate Thána from the districts of Násik, Ahmednagar, and Poona. In the south, Thána is divided from Pen in Kolába by a line, that, starting near the Bor pass, stretches about eighteen miles north-west till it meets the Pátálganga river, and then, keeping from two to four miles south of the river, runs about ten miles west to the sea. On the west, the sea line, beginning from the south of the Bombay harbour, is much broken by the great gulf, which over thirty miles long and from six to fifteen deep, surrounding the islands of Urán, Hog Island, Elephanta, Bombay, and Sálsette, stretches from the north coast of Álibág in Kolába to Bassein. Beyond Bassein, the coast, broken only by the estuary of the Vaitarna, stretches north, till, from Dáhánu to the mouth of the Damanganga, it gradually draws back towards the north-east. Except two tracts near the north of the district, a larger about 500
111 This chapter is compiled from materials supplied by the Rev. A. K. Nairne, late Bombay Civil Service; Mr. A. Cumine, C. S.; and Mr. G. L. Gibson, District Forest Officer.
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