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TARAI, or TERAI (i.e. " moist land ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 415 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TARAI, or TERAI (i.e. " moist See also:land ")  , the name of the sub-montane See also:strip of marshy See also:jungle stretching beneath the See also:lower ranges of the See also:Himalaya in See also:northern See also:India . This strip may be said to extend roughly from the See also:Jumna See also:river on the See also:west to the See also:Brahmaputra on the See also:east, though the See also:term is now officially confined to a subdivision of Naini Tal See also:district in the See also:United Provinces; See also:area, 776 sq . In.; See also:population (1901) 118,422 . At its northern edge, where the waterless See also:forest See also:tract of the Bhabar ends, a See also:series of springs burst from the See also:surface, and these, increasing and uniting in their progress, See also:form the numerous streams that intersect the See also:Tarai . The Deoha is the See also:great river of the Tarai proper, and is navigable at See also:Pilibhit . Elephants, tigers, bears, leopards and other See also:wild animals are found . Every-where it is most unhealthy, and inhabited only by tribes who seem See also:proof against See also:malaria . A large portion lies within See also:Nepal .

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