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of the lowlands. Coffee is grown at comparatively low
altitudes in the Madras hills. In Ceylon it has been
superseded by tea. Cinchona was grown with such
success both in Ceylon and the Nilgiris as to lead to
over-production, with the result that the cultivation of it
is now restricted.
No country in the world is so largely dependent on
irrigation for its food-supply as India, and in no country

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-nart of Irrigation by Canal.

have irrigation works on a larger scale been so successfully
 carried out. Chief amongst them are the canalsystems
 of the Ganges, Jumna, and of the Godavari, all of
which have carried life-giving water to millions of acres of
unproductive land. In the winter and spring months, when
the snow lies unmelted on the Himalayan slopes, the
preat rivers which find their sources in these mountains