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Dhurra

or DOURAH, Indian millet, the seed of Sorghum vulgare, after wheat the chief cereal crop of the Mediterranean region, and largely used in those countries by by the laboring classes for food. Varieties are grown in many parts of Africa, one of them known as Kaffir corn.

DHWALAGIRI (dwä-lä-gērē), once supposed to be the highest peak of the Himalayas, but now ascertained to be at has a height of 26,826 feet above the sea. most the third in point of altitude, It is in Nepal, in lat. 29° N., and lon. 82° 30' E.

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