MAHABALESHWAR, or MALCOLMPETH
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Originally appearing in Volume
V17,
Page 394
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
MAHABALESHWAR, or MALCOLMPETH
, a See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill station in Satara district, and the principal sanatorium in the Bombay presidency, India
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Pop
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(1901), 5299
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It is reached by carriage from Wathar railway station (39 m.) or by motor car from Poona (119 m.)
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Mahabaleshwar occupies the summit of a ridge of the Western Ghats, with a general elevation of 4500 ft. above sea-level
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It was established in 1828 by Sir John Malcolm. governor of Bombay, who obtained the site from the raja of Satara in exchange for another patch of territory
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The superior elevation of Mahabaleshwar renders it much cooler than Matheran (2460 ft.), a sanatorium about 5o M
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E. of Bombay, but its heavy rainfall (292 in. annual average) makes it almost uninhabitable during the rainy season
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The mean annual temperature is 67° F
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In the hottest season ( March- April) an extreme of a little over 90 is reached during the day
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Mahabaleshwar forms the retreat usually during spring, and occasionally in autumn, of the governor of Bombay, and the chief officers of his establishment, and has the usual public buildings of a first-class sanatorium
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