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The Rajputana Gazetteer Vol. 3 (1880) Includes Gazeteer Of Meywar, Partabgarh, Sirohi And Mount Abu, Ulwur, 1880
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1plateau of Gogunda and the old hill-fort of Kumalgarh on the western border, up the Arvali range to Ajmer. The slope to the north-east is gradual but regular throughout, Oodeypore being 1,957 feet, and the station of Deoli, in the extreme north-east corner, 1,122 feet, above sea-level.
3The change after crossing the watershed is very abrupt: instead of fine, open, undulating plains, the country to the south and west is entirely covered with rocks and hills, and dense jungle.
5The Arvali mountains, which run down through Merwara along the western border, expand all over the south-western and southern portions of the State, down to the valley of the Som on the Dungarpur border to the south-west, and of the Mahi on the Banswara border to the south, and eventually merge into hills, forming part of the Vindhyan range near the valley of the river Jakum to the south-east. The drainage of the southern portion of the country, with the exception of that which is stopped by the Debur lake, all flows through the rivers Jakum and Som into the Mahi, and thence down to the Gulf of Cambay. The fall of the country is considerable. The height of the Som is only 650 feet above sea-level, showing a drop of 950 feet from the plateau above in a distance of 25 miles, or nearly 40 feet per mile; and again from Bansi to Dariawad, a distance of 17 miles, there is a fall of 850 feet, or 50 feet per mile: this rapid fall is no doubt the cause of this intricate hilly bit of country. The first ten or twelve miles are more or less covered with jungle, and the hills are of an almost uniform height; but to the southwards the ranges become higher and higher, or rather the valleys become deeper and deeper, and the jungle is, if anything, even heavier than in the upper portions. Having fairly passed through this rugged belt and reached the low country about the Som, the country becomes far more open, with numerous villages and a fair amount of cultivation. All this wild tract to the south of the State is locally known as the "Chapan."
7The whole of the mountainous country to the west of Meywar, from the borders of Dungarpur on the south to the confines of Sirohi and Marwar on the north, is politically known as the Hillly Tracts of Meywar. This tract embraces the widest portion of the Arvalis; and although the summits of the ranges to the south are considerably lower than those to the north, still, owing to the rapid fall of the country on this side too, there is not so much difference in the relative heights of the hills above the valleys. Taking a line to the south-east from Gogunda, which is about 16 miles north-west of Oodeypore and 2,750 feet above the sea, we come to Oodeypore, 1,957 feet, then to the Debur
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