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Show Large Reservoirs. Omitting lakes, which are In many cases natural reservoirs, the largest reservoir res-ervoir or artificial lake in the world is the great tank of Dhebar, twenty miles southeast of Udaipur city, Rajputana province, India. ' It covers an area of twenty-one square miles. The masonry dam is 1,000 feet long by 95 feet high; 50 feet wide at the base and 15 ut tho top. In southern India, also, there are some immense reservoirs. That of Cumbom in Cuddspath district is formed by damming dam-ming the Gundlakamana river by a dam 57 feet high thrown between two hills. The reservoir has an area of fifteen square miles. The Sulekere reservoir in Mysore state is very little smaller, and next to Cumbum is the finest in southern India. Compared with these artificial lakes, Loch Katrine (supplying Glasgow), four and one-half square miles, and Vyrawy reservoir (supplying Liverpool), nsarly two square miles, are insignificant in size. The Man char tank in Scindo has an area of 190 square miles, but only when fed by the waters of the river during dur-ing the months of flood. Iu dry mouths it shrinks to quite a small area. New York Telegram. |