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PALNI HILLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 654 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALNI HILLS  , a range of hills in

south India, in the Madura
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district of
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Madras . They are an offshoot from the Western Ghats, and, while distinct from the adjacent Anamalai Hills, form
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part of the same
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system . They contain the hill station of
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Kodaikanal (7200 ft.), which has a milder and more equable
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climate than Ootacamund in the Nilgiri Hills . There is some coffee cultivation on the
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lower slopes .

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