THE INDIAN PENINSULA “159

placid stream for some 200 miles of its course ere reaching
 the sea, with no violent fall, and only the obstruction
caused by the shallowing of the river in crossing two or

Dolme

"21781

Fi1G. g0.—The Godavari Delta.

three sections of rocky bed (where it traverses the strike
of the adjoining hills) bars the way to navigation when
the river is low. About thirty years ago a scheme was
initiated for making a permanent channel, navigable by
the flat-bottomed steamers of the Godavari flotilla at all