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Identifier: handbooktravelle00john Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: John Murray (Firm) Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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Text Appearing After Image: Scale of Miles Sttutfor^ls Geoy £stai Verawal and Patan. about 2 m. N.W. from the town, atthe mouth on the right bank, is ofgreat antiquity. Half way to it onthe sand dunes is the Rest-House ofthe Junagarh State. On the S.W.face of Verawal there is a modernsea-wall and an unfinished stone pierwith a lighthouse at the end of it.A large Custom House has been builton the sea face, and near it is a dockestablished on reclaimed land. On the sea-shore, nearly 3 m. tothe S.E., is Patan Somnatli, alsoknown as Prabhas P;itan, or DevaPatan, the Semenat of Marco Polo.The anchorages at Verawal andPatan are so bad that it is hard to appears that he left behind a Moham-medan Governor. Subsequently theHindus recovered their power, but itwas again cast down by Alauddincirca 1300 A.D., and the coast belt orNagher kingdom conquered. Fromthis date Mohammedan supremacyprevailed throughout the belt, andfrom the reign of MuhammadTughlak governors were regularlyappointed. Through the gallantryand statesman
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