Mahabaleshwar

At the desire of many interested friends, author have endeavoured to put together in this book all available information about the charming hills of Mahabaleshwar, and it is hoped that it will be found equally interesting and useful by all those who visit this place and wish to know something of its history and climate. They form one of the spurs of the great Sahyadri range, which is well-known as the Western Ghauts. These rolling spurs, crowned by flat-topped summits, command magnificent views of deep valleys, and possess natural advantages surpassed by few.The principal Sanatorium of the Bombay Presidency is established on the summits of these hills, with a general elevation of 4,500 feet above sea-level, rising at its highest point, the Sindola Hill, to 4,700 feet. It is reached from Bombay by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway to Poona, and thence by the Madras and S. M. Railway to Wathar Station.