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Title: Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912
Subjects: Birds Ornithology
Publisher: Calcutta : s.n.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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and much less recorded,concerning this famous salt source. To illustrate this statement,I may mention that a member of Dr. Fawcetts committee,who lately made a hurried visit to the lake, remarked at dinner: Well, it is strange how things will happen. About six weeksago I was examining* an old Indian, of some forty years^ service,and amongst other questions I asked if a large salt lake didnot exist somewhere in Central India, and he replied, verypossibly there may be such a lake, but I have never heardof it,^ and now/ said the M. P., here I am drinking simkinon its edge. The Sambhur Lake is situated in N. lat. 26° 58 and E. long.75 5. Ali around, but principally to the west, are low-lying hills,which form a part of the Aravalli range, which runs in a north-westerly direction through Rajputana. To the north-west is asandy tract called the Great Desert, with Sinde on its western,and the Punjab on its northern and western boundary.Taking the village of Dodo, 42 ndles from Jeypur, in the
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362 Notes on the Birds of the Sambhiir Lake 8f its vicimti/. direction of Ajmere^ the lake is 16 miles distant in a nexvlynorthern direction. The surrounding country is arid and sterileto a degree. Approaching Sambhur from the south, the country is sparselycultivated, owing to the scarcity of water, while close to Sam-bhur there are a series of sand dunes covered with a stuntedvegetation, and beyond, close to the lake edge and parallel tothe town, is a fine belt of trees, with here and there a mass ofgreen foliage belonging to a tope, or garden, or one of thenumerous wells. The soil in this neighbourhood is exceedingly fertile, andwhen favorable rainfalls occur, or when water can be had forirrigation, splendid crops are obtained; but an adequate supplyof water is rarely obtained, the average rainfall here beingabout 12 inches, while further west, in Marwar, or the region ofdeath, little or no rain ever falls, and water for irrigation is some-times only obtained at a depth of over 800

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