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KODAIKANAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KODAIKANAL  , a

sanatorium of
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southern India, in the Madura
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district of
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Madras, situated in the Palni hills, about 7000 ft. above sea-level; pop . (1901), 1912, but the number in the hot season would be much larger . It is difficult of access, being 44 M. from a railway station, and the last x 1 m. are impracticable for wheeled vehicles . It contains a government
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observatory, the appliances of which are specially adapted for the study of terrestrial magnetism, seismology and solar physics .

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