Notes on Goorkhás - Being a Short Account of Their Country, History, Characteristics, Clans, &C #271061

These four enormous ridges stand out at right angles from the central axis of the Himalayas, and run parallel to each other nearly due south towards the plains. Each of these three natural divisions into which Nepal is divided by these lofty ridges is walled in on all four sides by mountain barriers — ou the north by the snowy range, on the south by the chain of sand stone hills, and on the east and west by one of the above ridges.