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 | | The city is situated on the right bank of the river Vaigai, and has a station on the South Indian railway 345 m. |
 | | It con-ists of a section of the plain stretching from the mountains east o the sea, coinciding with the basin of the Vaigai river, and gradually sloping to the S.E. The plain is broken by the outlying purs of the Ghats, and by a few isolated hills and masses of ock scattered over the country. |
 | | The most important spur of he Ghats is known as the Palni hills, which project E.N.E. across the district for a distance of about 54 m. |
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