district salt bombay KOLABA, a district of the Bombay
Presidency, India, lying between 17° 52' and 18° 50' N. lat.,
and between 73° 7' and 73° 42' E. long. It is bounded on the N.
by Bombay harbour and Thana district, on the E. by Poona and
Shthra, on the S. by Ratnhgiri and Janjira state, and on the W.
by the Arabian Sea. Lying between the S diyadri range and the
sea, Kolaba district abounds in hills, some being spurs of
considerable regularity and height, running at right angles to
the main range, whilst others are isolated peaks or lofty
detached ridges. The sea frontage, of about 20 miles, is
throughout the greater part of its length fringed by a belt of
cocoa-nut and betel-nut palms. Behind this belt lies a stretch
of flat country devoted to rice cultivation. In many places
along the banks of the salt-water creeks there are extensive
tracts of salt marsh land, some of them reclaimed, some still
subject to tidal inundation, and others set apart for the
manufacture of salt. The district is traversed by a f