Excerpt from Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. 16: Nasik Another great, though less clearly marked, division runs north and south, the western portion being called Dang, the eastern Desh. Dang denotes a wild and hilly tract in which, though excellent soil is sometimes found, cultivation of the simplest kind is alone possible, owing to the excessive rainfall and the consequent prevalence of malaria during the cold season. Desh implies a wide extent of open champaign country in which large fields, irrigated gardens, and a system of crop rotation are the rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.