GHÂTS, or GHAUTS, EASTERN AND WESTERN

GHÂTS, or GHAUTS, EASTERN AND WESTERN
   two mountain ranges running parallel with the E. and W. coasts of S. India, the latter skirting the Malabar coast between 30 and 40 m. from the sea, rising to nearly 5000 ft., and exhibiting fine mountain and forest scenery, and the former skirting the E. of the Deccan, of which tableland it here forms the buttress, and has a much lower mean level; the two ranges converge into one a short distance from Cape Comorin.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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