MATHERAN

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MATHERAN , a hill

sanatorium

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

India

INDIA
INDIA, FRENCH

, in the Kolaba

district

DISTRICT

of Bombay, 2460 ft. above the sea, and about 30 M. E. of Bombay city. Pop. (1901), 3060. It consists of several thickly wooded ridges, on a spur of the Western Ghats, with a magnificent outlook over the plain below and the distant sea. First explored in 185o, it has since become the favourite resort of the

middle

MIDDLE

classes of Bombay (especially the Parsis) during the

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

and autumn months. It has recently been connected by a 2 ft. gauge

mountain

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical
mons
- MONS (Flemish
  Bergen
  - BERGEN
  )
, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

line with Neral station on the

Great

GREAT

Indian Peninsula railway, 54 M. from Bombay.

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