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  • This is contrary to the Satpura hypothesis put forth by Hora, who suggested that the dispersal bridge was the Satpura Range rather than the Eastern Ghats.

    Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests 2008

  • However, MacKinnon also included the patch of coastal semi-evergreen rain forest along the eastern side of the Eastern Ghats with the moist deciduous forests along the Gangetic plains.

    Orissa semi-evergreen forests 2008

  • The Eastern Ghats have biogeographic affinities with the eastern Himalayas and with the Western Ghats.

    Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests 2008

  • About Anenge-nenge we could easily see the sub-ranges of the great Eastern Ghats, some twenty miles to the north-east.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • Dr. Jerdon had only obtained it from the Eastern Ghats inland from Nellore, where it inhabits forests among the hills.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • North of this, the forest being too scanty, it does not occur till the Kistna and Godavery rivers; and hence it is to be found in suitable spots all along the range of Eastern Ghats to near Cuttack and Midnapore, extending west far into Central India, and northwards towards the edge of the great plateau which terminates south of the Gangetic valley.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • The highest summits of the Deccan, as well as of the triangular ridge that fringes Northern Hindostan, and of the Eastern Ghats, do not exceed 3,000 feet.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • Upon the sea horizon, where the river measures some thirty miles across, I could distinctly see the junction of the two main branches, the true Olo 'Mpongwe, the main stream flowing from the Eastern Ghats, and the Rembwe

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • The Eastern Ghats were early known to the "Iberians," as shown by the Sierra del Crystal, del Sal, del Sal Nitro and other names, probably so called from the abundance of quartz in blocks and veins that seam the granite, as we shall see in the Congo country, and possibly because they contain rock crystal.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • About Anenge-nenge we could easily see the sub-ranges of the great Eastern Ghats, some twenty miles to the north-east.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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