Madras Agricultural Journal
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Soils of the Madras Presidency

Abstract

The Madras Presidency occupies the greater part of the south of the peninsular India extending from the Vizagapatam District in the north, about 19°N. to Cape Comorin about 6°N and east to west about 88°E to 74°E. The portion from 19°N till about 16°N is a coastal strip extending inland for about 100 miles and therefrom the rest of the peninsula is continued in the Presidency with the exception of a large interior arsa of the Mysore State and a narrow coastal strip on the south west coast of the Travancore and Cochin States.

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