Mountains In India

In the snowy Himalayas, India possesses the sublimes mountain

scenery to be found on the surface of the earth. Mount Everest is
higher than any other mountain in the world, and, if placed among the
Alps, would make the Jungfrau and Mont Blanc hide their diminished
heads.

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Although in Western India no such mountains as the Himalayas are to

be seen rising high above the line of everlasting snow, yet we cannot
complain of want of mountain scenery. If we take the train either for
Poona or Jabalpur from Bombay, our course lies at first for fifty or
sixty miles over level ground; but after we have gone so far, we begin
to rise by a slow and circuitous course up the Ghats.
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ANISH RAHUL RAM PETER

This range of mountains, varying in height from two to six thousand

feet, rises like a great wall for two to three hundred miles at a distance
of about thirty miles from the present coast of Western India,
throwing out detached mountains like Matheran and Mawuli into the
strip of land called the Konkan, which lies between the line of
mountains and the sea.
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Beyond the Ghats the land slopes gradually away to the eastern coast
of India, so that the springs of the Bhima, Krishna, and Godavari,
which flow eastward to the distant sea of Bengal, may be found
within fifty or sixty miles of the west coast of India. Travelers going
up the Ghats during a break in the monsoon have beautiful views
displayed before their eyes as they sit at ease in their railway
carriages. The mountains are then clad in luxuriant verdure, and great
waterfalls thunder down the rocky beds of the torrents.